OG Verbal 2th --69题

三零年代

The settlements at C C were built on a spectacular scale, with more  than 75 carefully engineered structures, of up to 600 rooms each, connected by a complex regional system of roads.

没有电子版，就直接把正确的抄下来了，不太明吧句子结构,尤其是of up to 600..., connected这一段是什么成分。
请教各位大侠。OG说是跟在with后，修饰structures的。有这样的修饰方法吗？

三零年代

自己顶一下

donganyuan

我认为做GMAT的方法是排除肯定不对的，而不是为什么对的是对的。希望楼主把题出全这样大家一起来讨论做题思路比较好一些，个人看法，仅供参考。

myungryong

个人觉得这应该是 with 型独立主格,“with＋宾语＋宾补” ，在句中可作状语，表示伴随。这一结构中的宾语补足语可由现在分词、过去分词、形容词、副词或介词短语等来充当
with （more  than 75 carefully engineered） structures, of up to 600 rooms each, connected by a complex regional system of roads
主干就是 structures connected by a complex regional system of roads
（of up to 600 rooms each是插入语）

三零年代

个人觉得这应该是 with 型独立主格,“with＋宾语＋宾补” ，在句中可作状语，表示伴随。这一结构中的宾语补足语可由现在分词、过去分词、形容词、副词或介词短语等来充当
with （more  than 75 carefully engineered） structures, of up to 600 rooms each, connected by a complex regional system of roads
主干就是 structures connected by a complex regional system of roads
（of up to 600 rooms each是插入语）

-- by 会员 myungryong (2010/8/15 23:58:54)

同意，同意，恍然大悟，感谢~~

小伊YSY

顶~

D07210721

choice a is a run-on - it tries to have two main verbs without using any sort of subordinating element. if you take out modifiers, adjectives, etc., you're left with the following: the settlements were built with structures were connected. that's bad.

choice b is correct: it uses a nonessential modifier set off by commas ('of up to 600 rooms each'), which, if eliminated, yields the intact and legitimate sentence ...carefully engineered structures, connected by... (with another nonessential modifier).

choice c:
- 'scale of' doesn't make sense
- you can't say 'each that had...' (can't follow 'each' with a relative pronoun - if you're going to use a relative pronoun, it has to come directly after the thing it's trying to modify)
- no justification for using the past perfect ('had been') - that verb, if there's a verb there at all, should be in the simple past (the same tense as everything else in the sentence, because everything described in the sentence is contemporaneous)
- it doesn't make sense to use 'each' AFTER the comma, because it's not true that each structure was connected with a road system. instead, the road system connected all of the structures with each other, which is nowhere close to the same thing. (having 'each' BEFORE the comma makes sense, because it's actually true that each of the structures comprised up to 600 rooms.)
analogy:
the USA comprises 50 states, each of which is united by a federal government --> wrong (the implication is that each state has its own federal government)
the USA comprises 50 states, all of which are united by a federal government --> correct
the USA comprises 50 states, (all) united by a federal government --> correct, whether you have 'all' or not

choice d:
- 'scale of' doesn't make sense
- the use of AND sets up ostensible parallelism, but the two structures given aren't parallel (one starts with of and the other with with)

choice e is also a run-on sentence (you'll see this if you reduce it to its 'skeleton', a la choice a)