[求助]prep2-66中关于所有格指代的问题

bank11

66.   (27974-!-item-!-188;#058&003736)

In addition to her work on theMiocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology withher discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity andpainstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.

(A) Leakey contributed toarchaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominidactivity and painstakingly documenting

(B) Leakey contributed toarchaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominidactivity and by painstakingly documenting

(C) Leakey was a contributor toarchaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominidactivity and with her painstaking documentation of

(D) Leakey's contributions toarchaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominidactivity and her painstaking documentation of

(E) Leakey's contributions toarchaeology include her discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominidactivity and painstaking documentation of

本题选D~ 想问在D里her是否可以指代Mary Leakey而不指代ML's contribution~还有，是不是所有的都适用呢？求NN指点~~~

michaelmay17

第一个问题，不可以。第二个问题我不懂你意思。。。

bank11

那这题为啥选D呢？怪我没表达清楚啊=。=第二个问题的意思是这个代词不能指代所有格是属于“绝对错误”还是“相对错误”？

谢谢~

babybearmm

没有谁说“代词不能指代所有格”
说的是“非所有格的代词通常不能指代所有格”  （看Manhattan第70页好了，叫做possessive poison）

所以这里用her来指代前面Mary's （记不住名字），一点问题都没有，谈不上任何错误。

况且，还有那个“通常”，也就是说这个possessive poison rule是个相对的guideline，不是absolute

以下from Ron@Manhattan
so, a takeaway for you:
therules on ambiguous pronouns are NOT absolute.

there are only two ABSOLUTE RULES for pronouns:
(1) the pronoun must stand for a noun that is actually PRESENT in the sentence;
(2) the pronoun and the noun must MATCH IN TERMS OF SINGULAR/PLURAL.

the other "rules", such as those that govern ambiguity of pronouns,are more like "guidelines" or "suggestions".
therefore, you should leave those criteria for last - i.e., until afteryou've narrowed down the choices based on all other criteria that you can find.


asnoted a few other times on this forum - most noticeably in the GMATPrep verbalfolder, but in a couple places in the other verbal folders - pronounambiguity is not an absolute rule. in other words, the test will clearlytolerate a certain degree of pronoun ambiguity.

in general, we've found:
the gmat will tolerate pronoun ambiguity when both of the following aresatisfied:
1. the intended referent makes much more sense than do the other possiblereferents,
and
2. the intended referent is PARALLEL TO THE PRONOUN, and the other possiblereferents are NOT parallel to the pronoun.

那这题为啥选D呢？怪我没表达清楚啊=。=第二个问题的意思是这个代词不能指代所有格是属于“绝对错误”还是“相对错误”？

谢谢~

-- by 会员 bank11 (2012/1/27 20:43:25)

bank11

ls的MM很用心啊~我又犯了用公理的错误。。。ls的意思说的是不是：在其他条件有绝对错误的时候可以bear代词指代的不清晰呢？但是之前看过的OG题目只要代词指代不清楚都算错误了啊。。。犯晕中
偶是菜鸟。。。问题比较多。。。
谢谢~

bank11

还有~刚刚看到OG12-26题，跟这题有点关系，一起贴出来：
Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington
Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few
years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and
ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886,
outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

前面也只出现了Emily Dickinson's，support了可以指代。。。

babybearmm

同学，你举的这两个例子,her的指代都非常清晰，一点都没错~
你看Manhattan吧，看那上面怎么说possessive poison rule的..........（我就不贴出来了，自己找印象深刻些）

还有~刚刚看到OG12-26题，跟这题有点关系，一起贴出来：
Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington
Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few
years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and
ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886,
outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

前面也只出现了Emily Dickinson's，support了可以指代。。。

-- by 会员 bank11 (2012/1/27 22:52:06)

babybearmm

好吧，说的是“非所有格的代词通常不能指代所有格”  
而所有格的代词（比如her）是可以指代所有格Mary's的

同学，你举的这两个例子,her的指代都非常清晰，一点都没错~
你看Manhattan吧，看那上面怎么说possessive poison rule的..........（我就不贴出来了，自己找印象深刻些）

还有~刚刚看到OG12-26题，跟这题有点关系，一起贴出来：
Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington
Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few
years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and
ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886,
outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

前面也只出现了Emily Dickinson's，support了可以指代。。。

-- by 会员 bank11 (2012/1/27 22:52:06)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/1/27 23:40:16)

12604698

lz记错了吧~这个her是形容词性物主代词。代替的就是所有格。。。不是主格she 或宾格her