请教og 12 diagnostic test 39

alexayin

According to schoolars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech, but was more likely to begin as a seperate and distinct symbolic system of communcation, and only later merged with spoken language.
A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began


答案B
我选了C
我的理解是not X but Y这个平行结构要求X与Y前后一致，a direct rendering of speech(X)是一个名词，所以but后面也需要一个名词 beginning做动名词与前面的rendering平行。。
答案说这里有三个动词需要平行 was, began, merged。 如果照此说来，那么不是not X but Y不是从后面的X&Y开始平行，而是从was这个动词就开始了？不是很明白 求指教

huatne

According to schoolars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech, but was more likely to begin as a seperate and distinct symbolic system of communcation, and only later merged with spoken language.
A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began


答案B
我选了C
我的理解是not X but Y这个平行结构要求X与Y前后一致，a direct rendering of speech(X)是一个名词，所以but后面也需要一个名词 beginning做动名词与前面的rendering平行。。
答案说这里有三个动词需要平行 was, began, merged。 如果照此说来，那么不是not X but Y不是从后面的X&Y开始平行，而是从was这个动词就开始了？不是很明白 求指教

-- by 会员 alexayin (2011/7/20 16:22:49)

这题不是not...but...的结构哦。（如果我们假设是的话，C也是错的，按照LZ的说法应该是not a rendering ... but a beginning...）
这题确如OG所说是was, began,merged的平行：The earlist writing was not..., but began as..., and merged with...

wellsli

顶一下 我也是不明白 大原则上的平行和 小平行 怎么处理，为啥不是not but呢？求解释 是不是因为probably的原因？？求NN啊