NN们，这道题以前的帖子一直没有解决，关于prep8的gathering

carlosh

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Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers that show with startling  directness the large-scale geometry of the universe.
                                                                                                      (A) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers
(B) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth for gathering information about its size and also the curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers
(C) Similar to the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, where they gathered information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations
(D) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth gathering information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations
(E) Just as with the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, gathering information about its size and curvature of the surface, astronomers have made new observations

我的问题是D选项的gathering有没有修饰earth的歧义，gathering前面没有逗号应该不可以做状语修饰sail吧？
最后在追问一个just as with 的用法。。。
谢谢大家了！

clisalong

答案是D吗？

tuscan

秒杀题，看到like之后利用比较对象直接选出D

sheikh239

恰恰是因为没有逗号，gathering才能修饰前面的句子，加了逗号就修饰astronomers have made...去了

另外GMAT语法讲究的是相对完美，歧义这个东西，看你怎么解读。earth是不可能gather的，不影响理解

just as with 我没听说过，你可以google一下

lixian1990

同问同问，这里的gathering会不会有修饰earth的歧义

lixian1990

lyx6117

like后面不是只能接名词么..为啥可以接句子T T~

aeoluseros

like后面不是只能接名词么..为啥可以接句子T T~

-- by 会员 lyx6117 (2012/4/2 23:29:31)

没有接句子啊。。只是名词后面跟了个定从