OG 12 SC26 老题新问！关于句子重心以及A选项的权威性~~快考试了，求各位不吝赐教！！

yqhpsyche

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.

A. 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
B. Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and ended shortly before Emily's death in 1886, outnumber
C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother and that ends shortly before Emily's death in 1886and outnumbering
D. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan's marriage to Emily's brother, ending shortly before Emily's death in 1886, and outnumbering
E. Dickinson, which 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, outnumber


我选的A，答案选的E。OG给A的一个解释是 The main point of the sentence is that Dickinson's letters to her sister-in-law outnumber her letters to anyone else. To emphasize the point, outnumber should be the main verb.
于是我就困惑了... 平常都是把A选项表达的意思作为句子重心的参考，可是为什么这里反而是说A选项的main point不对呢？以及怎么从题干推出了如上的main  point呢？ 求NN解答，赐我敢继续相信A选项的力量吧！！感激不尽

yqhpsyche

up it myself

yqhpsyche

还木有人吗?自己顶!!继续顶!!!

nomailman

如果我遇到这道题，我也会选A。E中主语和动词离得忒远了点，而且E中的outnumber有时态不一致的嫌疑。

至于句子的main point到底是什么，这实在是很微妙的问题。

pirate舟

顶，等个高手解答啊

kellyjoe

这个题必然是选E，因为A根本不合逻辑，E才能表达完整的意思，即ED给SHD的信数量超过了给其他任何人的信。本题的重心就是letters，作为outnumber的主语，而中间那长长的一串都只是其状语。A的结构明显不如E的更清晰

ytd1000

翻原来的帖子，发现一个大家都忽略的点我直接复制过来吧


刚发现OG12的21题和26题有一样的考点
现在分词放在句末，应当表达出谓语动词的伴随效果或者结果，如果没有这种明确的意思的话，那么现在分词所修饰的对象就不清楚。这两个题OG的解释也是一个意思的。嗯。


原帖是http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-450451-1-1.html?SearchText=og%2026


我觉得很有道理，26题里were written和outnumber没有明显的伴随关系（manhattan说伴随要发生在同一时间），所以outnumbering修饰的对象就是不清楚的，所以A的逻辑就不太能说清楚，manhattan说如果原句的逻辑清楚的话就不要改变原意，但是这题A的逻辑是不清楚的，所以就需要改变原意


我的一点想法，希望大家多多讨论

yqhpsyche

明白了明白了，谢谢LS的各路高人！   是我想得太简单了

superbat28

又是Q26- -... 首先不要质疑OG答案哈~
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.
A. 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
E. Dickinson, which 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, outnumber

A的问题是：【,V-ing】结构，有两种用法：1. 伴随状语  2. 结果状语

如果是伴随状语，即表示V-ing结构中的动词和主句动词同时发生，并且暗含两个动词主语相同。所以若是伴随状语的话，就是letters were written,同时letters outnumber。但其实常理上，这两个不能同时发生的，应该是这些信written后的结果是导致这些信件outnumber了，因此伴随状语不好。。

如果是结果状语，那就意味着是主句整句话，导致outnumber的结果，而且outnumber的主语是主句整句，而非只是主句主语。那A就变成【这些信被她在这个时间段写导致出的结果是outnumber】

但这样的话，主语又不对。因为outnumber的主语应该只是【信件】，但如果做结果状语，语法要求主语应该是主句整句话，【这些信件在这个时间段被写】，所以其实结果状语也不对。。

但其实，这么分析考试时候并没那么长时间。仍然是句意为王，要去看句子到底想强调什么表达什么，在这个基础上再钻研语法才对~ ：）

justeva

讲的很清楚！