在职备战——大道至简

livia2012

OG VERBAL 第二版最后18道题目错了5个...

108依靠三板斧和排除法做对了，不过又搜到一个解释，真是醍醐灌顶，分享下

This is an OG question, so I can't discuss it directly, but I can discuss a similar sentence that I make up...  

The debate here is between these two "types" of sentences:

1) Light can travel through space for huge distances, its energy prevented from dissipating by X.

2) Light can travel through space for huge distances, preventing its energy from dissipating by X.


Let's start with #1.
The word "prevented" can be a regular conjugated verb or it can be a participle. If it's a participle, it can be part of a verb form (with another conjugated verb before it) or it can indicate a modifier. Examples of the two verb options:

"prevented" as regular conjugated verb: I prevented my paper from blowing away.

Conjugated verb + "prevented" participle: My paper was prevented from blowing away. (The paper was prevented by me.)

Now, what is the difference in those two sentence constructions? The first is active; the second is passive. In the first, the subject (I) is doing the action (prevented). In the second, the subject (paper) is having the action performed on it (I'm still doing the preventing, not the paper).

Could I write: "The paper prevented from blowing away" - meaning, the paper prevented itself from blowing away? Nope. The paper can't prevent itself from blowing away.  If we want to use "the paper" as the subject, we have to write this in passive voice.

So. Energy prevented from dissipating by X. Is that a sentence? Can the energy prevent itself from dissipating? No, again. If we want to use "energy" as a subject and have an independent clause here, we have to write this in passive voice, which would be "the energy WAS prevented from dissipating by X."

What does that mean? That word "prevented" is not a conjugated verb or part of a conjugated verb form in this sentence. Therefore, it's a modifier and the stuff after the comma in C is NOT an independent clause - it's the rest of the modifier.

Now, #2.
2) Light can travel through space for huge distances, preventing its energy from dissipating by X.

We have <independent clause>, <-ing modifier>. The -ing modifier needs to modify the preceding clause. Also, the modifier needs to follow from the independent clause; that is, something in the independent clause needs to be doing this "preventing." What is doing this preventing?

Argh. It's the stuff after the word "by." That's not part of the independent clause. Nothing in the independent clause is responsible for "preventing the energy from dissipating." This is a misplaced modifier.

If it's too confusing to understand based on the example above, try this:

Paper can fly through the air for huge distances, preventing it from falling by gusts of wind.

What's preventing the paper from falling? The gusts of wind. But the "preventing" has to refer to the stuff *before* the comma. Nothing *before* the comma is actually preventing the paper from falling.

livia2012

小试身手，觉得三板斧比较适合自己，下一阶段再巩固下，希望在prep08语法上能练熟啊！！！！！

livia2012

DAY 3 距离预二战4月9日还有66天

计划
SC OG verbal分册 第一遍，试验了三板斧方法   done  70%
CR prep07           全部完成                           done  80%，但有部分题做过，正确率不够高
CR学习了前辈的BF题方法                                done
有道单词背200个                                           done  
——————————最大失误，忘了把verbal分册带回家了，用电子版的老是翻错页......

明天是周六，来个CR,SC的错题集中营吧，OG,PREP07的所有错题整理下，再把OG和prep07来个第二轮总结哈~
对了，还得继续背单词，是基础啊，今天背的有几个就在逻辑上遇到了，非常亲切啊
另外，争取把OG 阅读部分给做了，晚上如果心情好，潜回公司去拿我的verbal分册啊.....

livia2012

Win7的破系统！我昨天导入的单词都去哪里了？

livia2012

总结SC， OG 和 prep07~~~

livia2012

DAY 4 距离预二战4月9日还有65天

SC 按照manhattan分类法横向总结OG,verbal分册；
    按照语法笔记，总结prep07；

要求：在“官方分类”基础上，把自己的易错考点，易错做题思路揪出来；

CR 总结OG,VERBAL分册
    有时间的话总结prep07

RC 仔细看看小安阅读法，结合OG小练习下

单词 复习昨天的200，背新的200

加油加油~~~~今天任务重啊~~~

泾渭不凡

嗯~~~~姐姐强度很大啊~~~加油啊~~~

cherryxqm

fighting!~

livia2012

嗯~~~~姐姐强度很大啊~~~加油啊~~~

-- by 会员 泾渭不凡 (2012/2/4 14:01:22)

白天各种忙，还兼有头疼，可能是最近睡不好的缘故，这身体啊，能不能别给我添乱啊；
刚去公司取了verbal分册回来，又浪费了不少时间，好吧，今天能总结到哪里是哪里......

PS 这次总结准备改进一战时候用地总结方法，看看效果如何，感觉自己跟爱迪生实验哪种材料做灯丝最合适似的，好吧，实践出真知