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aeoluseros

manhattan的NN对OG91有一个解释：

We could've used "As did", if sentence were something like:
As did many self taught artists, Perle Hessing painted.....

did not begin(斜体引用原文), nothing regarding the auxiliary verb.

SuccessMBA08

以下是引用rorarora在2008-8-18 21:41:00的发言：

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Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored due to their enhancement of reproduction or survival, but that they are simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments.

(A) due to their enhancement of reproduction or survival, but that they are

(B) due to the reproduction or survival they enhance, but they are

(C) because they enhance reproduction or survival, but

(D) because they enhance reproduction or survival, but are

(E) because of enhancing reproduction or survival, but are

答案选D

题目的not明明跟在are 后面，如果but后面再加are，不就破坏平行了么？

有限的几种解释我都觉得很不convincing.

prep笔记的解释是but还有except的含义，所以应该加are;

还有说法是but后面很容易和enhance并列....

于是我曾经总结：not...but这个词组，用在名词短语前，要小心地补上谓语；

可是

1）前两天翻看LZM, 赫然写着：not ...but....可以用来修饰名词词组！！~

2）OG Diagnostic Test 39题

39. According to scholars, the earliest writing was probable not a direct rendering of speech, but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

(A) was more likely to begin as

(B) more than likely began as

(C) more than likely beginning from

(D) it was more than likely begun from

(E) it was more likely that it began

The sentence is a comparison in which probably not x is balanced by but more than likely y.

前面一个not后面，跟的也是名词

有没有人能出来说说看法的？

顶一下，好帖。看了后我想说说我对prep-74题的一些想法。也有很多地方希望大家补充：我做题的时候选了D，但回头觉得C也很好。C和D确实很有迷惑性！想了很久，我也逐渐同意prep说C中but是作为介词，可能与前面的插入语because，而没有与实际应该要对称的部分are not the products of natural selection并列，产生歧义。

because they enhance reproduction or survival, but simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments （但是我始终无法理解这里的句子意思，是否有人能解释一下？）

其次，对于D的not..but..我归结为它的动词并列结构。好像都是be 动词在not 之前，but 后出现动词与其平行。PREP 中有好几道题都是这样。

PREP-73

Evolutionary psychology holds that  the human mind is not a "blank slate" but instead comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed to solve specific problems human ancestors faced millions of years ago.

PREP－76

By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

Evolutionary psychology holds that  the human mind is not a "blank slate" but instead comprises specialized mental mechanisms that were developed to solve specific problems human ancestors faced millions of years ago.

PREP－76

By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
         continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

所以我认为74题D中but are 中are的补出很重要，消除了C的歧义！！

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SuccessMBA08

怎么贴的时候会出下那么多，大家将就着看一下！

SuccessMBA08

以下是引用aeoluseros在2008-8-19 14:29:00的发言：

Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but simply random by-products of other evolutionary developments.

两种意思：

1、补出的只有are

PSJG说很多生物特征不是自然选择产生的，（自然选择这些特征是因为他们增强了繁殖和生存的能力）（插入语不管他），而仅仅是其他进化发展过程的副产品。

2、补出的是are not

PSJG说很多生物特征不是自然选择产生的，（自然选择这些特征是因为他们增强了繁殖和生存的能力）（插入语不管他），而不仅仅是其他进化发展过程的副产品。

例子：

OG91.
      Like many self-taught artists, Perle Hessing did not begin to paint until she was well into middle age.

(A)   Like

(B)   As have

(C)    Just as with

(D)   Just like

(E)    As did

OG对B,E的解释：

Choices B and E, which replace A's prepositional phrase with clauses introduced by as, use auxiliary verbs that cannot properly be completed by any part of the verb phrase in the main clause: neither have ... did not begin nor did... did not begin is logically or grammatically sound.
    (后边是否定，找不到合适的助动词，而且即便这样，也没有用like简洁)

不知道我对OG91有没有理解对，欢迎丢柿子，西红柿，砸砖...

对于aeoluseros兄OG91的理解，我有不同意的地方，想补充一点：

答案A，比较搞的是E选项！这里E错是因为，As did, 这里的did的补出无法对应后面句子中Perle Hessing did not begin to paint until she was well into middle age

划线部分的动词。用like避免了动词补出的歧义！！

SuccessMBA08

以下是引用aeoluseros在2008-8-18 22:47:00的发言：

OG Diagnostic Test 39题

According to scholars, the earliest writing was probable not a direct rendering of speech, but
                    more than likely began as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

Not后面表面上是一个名词短语，实际上not前面是一个实意动词be动词（probable应该是probably吧？），而习惯用法not放在was后面了，所以其实应该是“谓语动词+名词短语”的并列。

这里我的理解，but后面省略了was，be likely to 的省略。不知道这样理解是否对！！ 

aeoluseros

不是的，如果理解成be likely to这个短语的话，那原句
                more than likely began as
        中to也被省略了，这是不合理的。

be likely to里面LIkely是做adj.

而likely do里面Likely是adv.

adv.+ v.和adv.+v.的并列，前面probably也是adv.

aeoluseros

以下是引用SuccessMBA08在2008-8-21 15:27:00的发言：

对于aeoluseros兄OG91的理解，我有不同意的地方，想补充一点：

答案A，比较搞的是E选项！这里E错是因为，As did, 这里的did的补出无法对应后面句子中Perle Hessing did not begin to paint until she was well into middle age

划线部分的动词。用like避免了动词补出的歧义！！

我认为后面的was是系动词,did是不能指代系动词be的，所以did要指代也是指代begin.而不会引起指代was的歧义。

SuccessMBA08你认为呢？

而且manhattan的解释我认为是有一定的权威性的，Ron和tracy两个大牛说的话简直跟ETS,GMAC一样...

AlienX

agree with 16 and 17楼

AlienX

OG91E, "As did many self-taught artists, Perle Hessing did not begin to paint until she was well into middle age."中的did是代began
全補:
As many self-taught artists bagin (to paint), Perle Hessing did not begin to paint until she was well into middle age.
意思改了

easttiger

反正记住 be not... ,but (be)...  就行了.这是因为be动词的特殊性。