欢迎sbbi,braveMBA等大牛参与讨论新JJ的语法现象

天山

11月3日JJ : 好像是什么委员会admonish the Senator,saying he were... in that 这个senator干了什么不该干的事（my key,很不爽，五个选项say后都没that）
还有一选项admonish the Senator by saying he were...by doing 什么不该干的事
  
看来分词始终是考点！！我的问题如下：

In a leveraged buyout, investors borrow huge sums of money to buy companies, hoping to pay off the debt by using the company’s earnings and to profit richly by the later resale of the companies or their divisions.
(A) by using the company’s earnings and to profit
(E) with the companies’ earnings and to profit  
正确答案为（E）, 但是（A）中的by using 用法错在哪里？ 前人曾在语法总结-修饰篇（上）有所提及，但是不能令人信服，而分词的这种用法在真题中屡见不鲜，如：
Since a rhinoceros that has no horn is worthless to poachers, the Wildlife Protection Committee plans to protect selected rhinoceroses from being killed by poachers by cutting off the rhinos’ horns.

In December of 1987 an automobile manufacturer pleaded no contest to criminal charges of odometer tampering and agreed to pay more than $16 million in civil damages for having test-driven cars with their odometers disconnected

Contrary to earlier conjectures, it may be that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels would cool the globe by reducing the amount of solar energy  absorbed by snow.
请大家讨论讨论这个语法现象吧.

Marrow

company's versus companies',which is correct here?

ballpark

如果这个错误改正过来了， 用by using.....对不对呢？

以下是引用Marrow在2003-11-4 9:39:00的发言：
company's versus companies',which is correct here?

Marrow

hoho,if so,a big dilemma.

chipmunk

以下是引用ballpark在2003-11-4 9:46:00的发言：
如果这个错误改正过来了， 用by using.....对不对呢？

Marrow is right. It should be companies to be consistent. 如果这个错误改正过来了, the I don't know which one is better. I would suggest you not to spend much time on this issue, since ETS will never test you between 'by using' and 'with'.

braveMBA

我仍一个砖头：
从平行结构的角度看，E要优于A。因为未划线部分by the later resale of the companies or their divisions，明显是BY+NOUN的形式，而整个句子是：
TO DO STH BY/WITH... AND TO DO STH BY STH，所以从这个角度看，两个介词短语强调的是平行的结果（名词性），而不是动作性。

BY USING本身没有错误，看OG的解释，到处都是BY USING。

不知道这个理由是否可以足够选E，要是我就选E。

天山

谢谢braveMBA的解释，那么如下这一题如何解释？
Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted.
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves.

正确答案为（c),但是(d)中的after exhausting 又错在哪里？

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-4 10:38:51编辑过]

Marrow

hoho,Alaska can "exhaust" its oil reserves?!?

chipmunk

以下是引用天山在2003-11-4 10:38:00的发言：
谢谢braveMBA的解释，那么如下这一题如何解释？
Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted.
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves.

正确答案为（c),但是(d)中的after exhausting 又错在哪里？

D is wrong because there is no clear subject to 'exhausting', it could be 'fund', 'state's economy' or something else. I always suggest to use simple rules to solve the problem, and not to spend too much time on details.

[此贴子已经被作者于2003-11-4 10:38:51编辑过]

braveMBA

这个不是JJ吧。：）

D从句子的角度看，exhausting的主语更倾向于是 fund ，所以是不合理的。