gwd23-23彻底糊涂了but

uvoice

看到了以前两个讨论但是没有问到这个but的问题：

GWD-23-Q23

After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to doctors and hospitals.

 

1. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to

2. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to

3. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying

4. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying

5. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying

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中but为什么前面要加逗号那？？？ 如果是一个主语，不应该是不用逗号吗？因为then的原因吗？哪个战友能来帮着解释一下？还有一个问题，doing得分词形式在句位，什么是欧会当时修饰前面名词的歧义？这里的falling months behind in paying没有修饰business的歧义吗？

多谢了！！！！！！！！这两个问题困扰了我有一段日子了。

seastone

以下是引用uvoice在2007-6-30 5:00:00的发言：

看到了以前两个讨论但是没有问到这个but的问题：

GWD-23-Q23

After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to doctors and hospitals.

1. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to

2. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to

3. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying

4. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying

5. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying

e

中but为什么前面要加逗号那？？？ 如果是一个主语，不应该是不用逗号吗？因为then的原因吗？哪个战友能来帮着解释一下？还

e

中but为什么前面要加逗号那？？？ 如果是一个主语，不应该是不用逗号吗？因为then的原因吗？哪个战友能来帮着解释一下？还

省略了主语.

有一个问题，doing得分词形式在句位，什么是欧会当时修饰前面名词的歧义？这里的falling months behind in paying没有修饰business的歧义吗？

falling behind in paying 如果去掉逗号则修饰bussiness.
        

多谢了！！！！！！！！这两个问题困扰了我有一段日子了。

stevegt

hi: 个人愚见：

1。while做对比，应该是在同一个时间段的事情做比较。这道题明显有先后顺序，所以while做对比不是太好。A B out

2.paying在这个地方没多大歧义，只能做结果伴随状语。如果象你所说的要修饰business的话，要的也应该是个限定性修饰。逗号+ing一般只能表示非限定性。所以这里可以排除ing修饰business的嫌疑。

dirtyfish

根据我的经验，while在gmat里一律当作“尽管，虽然”讲，其他的考法没出现过，在阅读和逻辑里也是一样

uvoice

1 我不明白的就是一般gmat都倾向于如果主语一致且省略，那末用and/but就不用逗号，用了逗号，就是主语不一致，引导的另一个分句。就感觉怎么又得题这样，有的题那样。很困惑。

2 如果又逗号，doing也可以修饰前面的名词，像doing夹心的情况就是因为容易引起歧义，所以一般肯定是错误的。是不是在句末的，就要根据逻辑意思来判断? 我是糊涂了。

3 while，我觉得stevegt说得很有道理，我明白了。但是不同意上面fish的，while再gmat里面还是经常考到转折意思的。

uvoice

我又看了一下，有点明白but/and的区别了。用法不太一样。战友们帮我看看doing引导的分词结构在句尾的修饰问题就好了。

郎文上but  then地用法是和前面说的事实相反，通常是口语化的。but then (again)

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stevegt

嗯嗯大概MM没有理解我的意思。

doing如果要做形容成分修饰名词的话也要分限定性和非限定性修饰。

一般来说，限定修饰就是一个名词紧跟着ing,没有逗号。这种情况，doing的意思是：

the increses are in falling business, not rising or normal business.

如果是非限定修饰的话，意思是：

the increases are in business, and the business happens to be falling right now.

非限定仅仅是提供一个additional的成分。

形容词也一样， 譬如我说i wear a red tee，这个red就是限定的形容词，表示我穿的不是green tee, or whatever.

如果我说i wear a beautiful tee，这个beautiful在这个地方就是一个补充的成分，意思是我穿了一件tee，这件tee正好很beautiful

说了这么多，再回来看题。从逻辑上来讲的话，如果doing在这个地方是要修饰business的话，也是要一个限定的修饰：必须指的是一个falling的business。但是这个地方你要强硬地说falling是修饰business的话就不对了，因为这里有逗号，最多就是个非限定的修饰，那逻辑意思就不对了。

所以这个地方falling没有歧义，仅仅是个表示结果的伴随状语。

seastone

以下是引用stevegt在2007-6-30 14:01:00的发言：

hi: 个人愚见：

1。while做对比，应该是在同一个时间段的事情做比较。这道题明显有先后顺序，所以while做对比不是太好。A B out

2.paying在这个地方没多大歧义，只能做结果伴随状语。如果象你所说的要修饰business的话，要的也应该是个限定性修饰。逗号+ing一般只能表示非限定性。所以这里可以排除ing修饰business的嫌疑。

while做对比，应该是在同一个时间段的事情做比较。这道题明显有先后顺序，所以while做对比不是太好。

太对了!

uvoice

以下是引用stevegt在2007-7-1 5:19:00的发言：

嗯嗯大概MM没有理解我的意思。

doing如果要做形容成分修饰名词的话也要分限定性和非限定性修饰。

一般来说，限定修饰就是一个名词紧跟着ing,没有逗号。这种情况，doing的意思是：

the increses are in falling business, not rising or normal business.

如果是非限定修饰的话，意思是：

the increases are in business, and the business happens to be falling right now.

非限定仅仅是提供一个additional的成分。

形容词也一样， 譬如我说i wear a red tee，这个red就是限定的形容词，表示我穿的不是green tee, or whatever.

如果我说i wear a beautiful tee，这个beautiful在这个地方就是一个补充的成分，意思是我穿了一件tee，这件tee正好很beautiful

说了这么多，再回来看题。从逻辑上来讲的话，如果doing在这个地方是要修饰business的话，也是要一个限定的修饰：必须指的是一个falling的business。但是这个地方你要强硬地说falling是修饰business的话就不对了，因为这里有逗号，最多就是个非限定的修饰，那逻辑意思就不对了。

所以这个地方falling没有歧义，仅仅是个表示结果的伴随状语。

明白了~~~~我再找出这些例子来研究研究~~~~多谢多谢！！！！！！！

uvoice

205. The peaks of a mountain range, acting like rocks in a streambed, produce ripples in the air flowing over them; the resulting flow pattern, with crests and troughs that remain stationary although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, are known as "standing waves."
(A) crests and troughs that remain stationary although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, are
(B) crests and troughs that remain stationary although they are formed by rapidly moving air, are
(C) crests and troughs that remain stationary although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, is
(D) stationary crests and troughs although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, are
(E) stationary crests and troughs although they are formed by rapidly moving air, is

今天又看了og这道题。没有划线的部分，acting like rocks in a streambed不算是那种夹心的错误吗？ 虽然我知道他是修饰前面的peaks，可是语法上说是不是也有修饰produce的嫌疑？还是说做伴随状语/结果状语只能放在动词后面？如果在前面就不存在这样的歧义了？

多谢~~~

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-7-3 2:38:28编辑过]