GWD1-Q30

zjx67

GWD1-Q30:
The ancient Anasazi harvested such native desert vegetation as the purple-flowered bee plant, what they now commonly call wild spinach in northern Arizona and other parts of the southwestern United States.
A.    what they now commonly call
B.    a plant that they now commonly call
C.    now commonly called
D.    and is mow commonly called
E.    which it is now commonly called
C是个什么成分？

QinManyi

一个在国外论坛上看到的一个GMAT Instructor的解释，大家可以参考一下：
For those who liked E, keep in mind that "which" is a modifier that takes the place of "plant" - essentially "which" is used as a pronoun, so the word "it" is redundant...we're just piling on at that point. You wouldn't say "For Christmas I got a new bike, which it is red". You'd just say "I got a new bike, which is red..."


For A and B, I think it's important to note that "they" does properly replace "Anasazi" as a pronoun...there's nothing wrong with the pronoun itself. What IS wrong here is the logic. We're talking about the ANCIENT Anasazi...so it's illogical that they would "NOW" commonly call a plant something different. Ancient means that there isn't anything they're doing "now". A and B don't really have a pronoun error, but they're both guilty of a vicious logical error.

C is correct - it properly modifies "plant" with "now commonly called", and therefore is correct.

D, just for completeness' sake, illogically makes it sounds like "Anasazi" is now commonly called "Wild spinach" - the word "and" links the two verbs "harvested" and "is", binding them both to the same subject, Anasazi.       

ziluqingqing

咦...怎么没人回答呀..

zoeykao

A  what they啰嗦 使plant变成宾语

B  同位语啰嗦

C  逗号加过去分词在句尾坐定语修饰逗号前的名词

D  and is 的主语变成A不合逻辑

E  Which it is 可省略

morningzc

同位语不是GMAT喜欢考的么...?

tangying1014

额，明白了。。。

icever

up
同位语哪儿不妥

wwk_lion

确实B明显不够简洁

DUKB24

确实B明显不够简洁

-- by 会员 wwk_lion (2012/10/3 20:14:25)

nope


the tense is fatal here


they refer to the preceding noun （how can we use present tense to describe an extincted group ）

TheGreatTony

QinManyi 发表于 2015-5-13 09:12
一个在国外论坛上看到的一个GMAT Instructor的解释，大家可以参考一下：
For those who liked E, keep in m ...

同意！