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alana2003

507.Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if  
答案a
我选了d

561.One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored.
(A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored
(B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium
(C) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium
(D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium
(E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed
答案b
我选了d

什么时候用分词还是不太搞得清，谁能给我讲讲？

alana2003

561我已经明白了。

nauzer

561該如何解釋呢?還是不懂

nlyang

(D)不好的地方在於他把原本原句強調施加於某對象的動作,變成名詞跟限定詞的型態,模糊了pursuade這個動作的跟people的動/受詞關係.你從 persuasion of people會以為people是pursuasion的所有者,而非動作的受詞.....這是很細的地方

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