求教OG12 SC3

goodwinnie

OG 12 SC3
Although various eighteenth-and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, schoolars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in native languages.
A until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study  
B  until almost 1900 scholars and critics had not begun seriously studying
C  not until almost 1900 were scholars and critics to begin seriously to study
D  it was not almost until 1900 when scholars and critics began to seriously study
E  it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying（E)
为什么说D中"not almost until"是无意义的修饰语。 E选项中用began studying, 为什么不用begin to do?

zytim

原文almost 1900意思应该是 将近1900

而almost until修饰的是until   "将近直到" 似乎不是很通顺

个人意见 看能不能帮到LZ

goodwinnie

恩，明白了，有道理，之前没仔细看清题干,看成not until almost，怎么都想不通，谢谢了。
刚看到有个帖子说：
"It is not until ...that..."is idiom that represents a strong feeling of emphasis.In chinese it can be called "Qiang Diao Ju",quite familiar right?
Keep this in mind:When encounter this kind of question,do not seperate "not" and "until" apart.There exists no why but the idiom,the tone of language.

bennywang2usa

这题很简单啊！

not until固定搭配，UNITL NOT不对，排除A、B

“although+句子，句子”或者“句子，although+句子”，所以C没主语，排除

D里面it is是强调句，强调物用that，强调人用who，哪儿有用when的？排除

这不就剩E了吗?

goodwinnie

选是选出来了，但对E选项还是有点疑问。语法比较弱，请指教！

淡水河边

恩，正好看到这道题，顺便问一下，这边D和E中的seriously的位置都正确吗？

seriously到底是修饰哪个词的啊？总是搞不懂这种叠用的修饰关系~~请指教，谢谢~~

chris8849

那为什么是begin doing呢？

2010

一般来说，begin to do和begin doing可以互换，但在以下三种情况下，用to do：

1. 主语不是指人，而是it等。如：It began to rain.

2. begin后接表示心理活动的词。如：begin to know
  believe， wonder， think等。

3. begin本身是ing形式，为避免重复后接to do
  即，beginning to do

补充：不知道不等于没有，高一的时候都讲过好几遍了。做题的时候要么没有这个两个选项同时出现，如果有的话，就是这三种区别