OG12 42解释

fatdudu

OG-12 42
Scientists have recently discovered what could be the
largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant
fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and
rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore
some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than
30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
Parallelism; Verb form
Th e original sentence is correctly written. Th e
giant fungus is described as an interwoven filigree
spawned … some 10,000 years ago and extending for
more than 30 acres. Th e present participle extending
parallels the past participle spawned.
A Correct. Th is sentence has the participles
spawned and extending in a correct parallel
construction. Spawned refers to something
that happened in the past, while extending
refers to something that continues into
the present.
B Extends is a present tense verb, not the
participle needed for parallel structure; the
ostensible parallel between extends and the
distant verb is is superficial and would result
in an awkward and unclear sentence.
C Extended looks parallel to spawned, but this
phrase would mean that the fungus
extended only in the past when the fungus
clearly lives on in the present.
D It extended is not parallel to spawned and
indicates an event completed in the past.
E Is extending is the progressive form of the
present tense verb, not the participle
required for parallelism.

选A可以理解没有什么问题，这道题的主干还是第一句话Scientists have recently discovered what could be the
largest and oldest living organism on Earth，后面所有的包括一个定语从句，两个分词结构都是用来修饰fungus的，所以只能是修饰的动词表达方式，如果用extends就有了独立的主谓宾结构了，在语法上说不通。
困惑的是OG对于A的解释，明显的是依据主动、被动的关系来确定用extending和spawned的，但是OG却从时态上来解释，这是怎么回事呢？

myungryong

同问~~~~

bensonbao

同問

cicicharming

我是这么想的：spawned和extending确实分别有被动/主动之分，但同时ed和ing结构也有“已完成”和“正在进行”的时态上的含义，其实不矛盾吧，而且还有那个10000years ago，OG那么解释还是挺有道理的~~

mabelren

我觉得ＯＧ解释时态的同时　一直在说答案是否和spawned平行的问题 所以也是考虑了主被动修饰fungus 的问题

fatdudu

嗯 楼上考虑的有理
但现在觉得这个其实不是很重要的考点
虽然还是不清楚 但没必要纠结了 诶……