gwd－8－20新想法

fighteding

Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also caused erosion and very quickly deforested whole regions.

A. Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also

B. Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland (especially in the Northeast), which gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but also

C. The systematic clearing of forests in the United States, creating farmland (especially in the Northeast) and giving consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but also

D. The systematic clearing of forests in the United States created farmland (especially in the Northeast) and gave consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it also

E. The systematic clearing of forests in the United States not only created farmland (especially in the Northeast), giving consumers relatively inexpensive houses and furniture, but it

我觉得这道题应该选e，以前的nn们都选A或者D，但没有结果呵呵，我来说一下理由， 看e选项

因为在这里clearing不能give消费者房子和家具，而clearing creat farmland

这个动作可以，因此要用分词表伴随来代表前面的整个动作give房子和家具，而放眼前四个

选项没有一个公这样的表达；create和give是不能并列的。至于最后的but it也许是省略了also，

这种用法也能找到，所以我想e应该是正确答案。

open to discuss

mbz

except for the missing also, E has no problem. However,

not only ... but also...

is a fixed structure.

Hence, E is wrong.

D is perfect, grammatically, and logically.

fighteding

but it also的用法对吗？

mbz

以下是引用fighteding在2007-1-10 23:31:00的发言：
but it also的用法对吗？

It depends.

If the sentence begins with the reverse structure such as: not only did somebody do sth, then we can use but it aslo.

Of course, in this context, we don't have a problem like that in D.  D is just a simple sentence with no need to use "not only... but also"

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fighteding

以下是引用mbz在2007-1-10 23:41:00的发言：

It depends.

If the sentence begins with the reverse structure such as: not only did somebody do sth, then we can use but it aslo.

Of course, in this context, we don't have a problem like that in D.  D is just a simple sentence with no need to use "not only... but also"

明白了，谢谢

qxlsh

严格按ETS的书面语标准来说，每个答案都有缺陷。但是，相比之下，我认为A,B的缺陷还更大一些（A: 时态不平行；B：which指代前面的全句），而D选项只有一个不足，就是not only..., but....省略了also，但是平常的英语中这时很常见的用法（你可以baidu或者google一下就知道）

所以，我也认为：E才是最优选项。

hohoo

A 的时态哪里不平行啊？A的错误是did放前面以后，两个动词都应该是原型

but  "it" seems incorrect in E

zxh912

这道题到底应该选什么啊，看了前辈们的帖子，还是看法不一，请大家再来讨论一下吧！

还有6天考试，几近崩溃～是不是机考也出像GWD这样有争议的题目啊，岂不很惨～

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