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流沙

从来都没有这么仔细的看过og的解释，惭愧ing。。。

唐三彩

个人观点：

1。Lacking可以做不及物动词，和in一起使用，而且就是用现在式的，格式为are lacking in sth===缺少sth。所以E中的lacking是进行式。。。。。

2。OG地解释应该没有问题，lack的使用既可以用lack + sth，也可以are lacking in sth，不过OG的意思是后者优先于前者，除非没有后者的选项。。。。。。

请指正，如果我说得对，那么我又学了一招ETS。

BTW，仔细看OG确实很管用的说。。。。。。。。

paopao

leeon

请再读一下OG中黄色的部分

是说use one or both of the "-ing" forms

OG说得没有错啊

billion

og 的意思是说lack和become都应该用-ing的形式，lacking是进行时，becoming是分词修饰economy
"fail to use one or both of..."的意思是说“要不就全都没用，要不就只用了一个”，即：
A - fail to use "lacking"
B - fail to use "lacking" and "becoming"
C - fail to use "lacking" and "becoming"

我的问题是怎么判断应该是 progressive and ongoing conditions
另外，看了以前的讨论贴，对于 E 中的 them 为什么不指代 skills 仍然没有结论，再问，请nn解答

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-2-21 19:58:05编辑过]

scorpio0001

首先回答楼上的问题，代词的指代：

白勇的课堂上说代词的查找顺序：

1、主语的核心词  2、宾语的核心此或表语的核心词  3、修饰语的中心词

我通过一些题的验证，还是比较准确的。

我的问题：

1、同楼上，是怎么判断应该是 progressive and ongoing conditions？

2、E中的lacking是adj.还是v.ing?

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-4-5 18:42:57编辑过]

rhod

先回一下24楼关于指代的问题。

因为从逻辑上来看，them肯定不是指代skills, 而是students。所以，即使语法上有指代混淆的嫌疑，但是我们仍然可以从逻辑上可以排除。但是，这应该是与其他选项比较之后得出的结论，因为类似结构在别的题目里面可能是个致命的错误。

1、同楼上，是怎么判断应该是 progressive and ongoing conditions？

还是应该从逻辑上来看，觉得应该是个持续动作，那么就应该用进行时态。但是，每个人的逻辑感觉不一样，因此很可能会有不同的理解，这个时候应该结合其他语法不同点，来判断答案。

上面的回答可能有点玄，不过我觉得这是我之前复习SC的一个体会。很多时候，GMAT没有一个明确的原则来判断对错，因此需要用逻辑和语法相辅相成，来判断答案。

2、E中的lacking是adj.还是v.ing?

lacking应该是形容词，longman上是这样解释的。

lacking adj.

[not before noun]
1. not having enough of something or any of it
lacking in
- He was lacking in confidence . She seems to be entirely lacking in intelligence.
- The new designs have all been found lacking in some important way.

2 if something that you need or want is lacking, it does not exist
- Financial backing for the project is still lacking. These qualities are sadly lacking today.

scorpio0001

感谢rhod NN详细解答，完全明白了。

ring_cheng

还是有一些疑问：

D. are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city's economy becoming

D uses the "-ing" forms, but so much... as to be difficult to absorb is an awkward and unidiomatic verbal modifier. 这里明显指出lacking是动词不是形容词啊？另外这句话的意思是不是：当修饰动词的时候，用so...that...比so..as to...更好？如果是的话，为什么？

如果D改成：are lacking so much in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city's economy becoming 可不可以？

(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

请指教！

薰衣紫草

1. "Lack" is a vt. instead of a vi. In D, the prep., in, indicates that "lacking" here is not a verb but an adj. This idea is proved by Longman. From Longman: "Do not use the verb lack before 'in' or 'of': We lack ideas (NOT We lack in/of ideas). However, you can use the  phrases be lacking in and a lack: We are lacking in ideas OR We have a lack of ideas."

2. "Verbal modifier" here does not necessarily mean "a modifer for verbs". "Verbal" could also mean "informal" or "oral" besides the adj. of verbs. Therefore, "....but so much... as to be difficult to absorb is an awkward and unidiomatic verbal modifier" only states that "so...as to be" here is a wrong expression and also less formal. The subject of the first part of the sentence is "students", but the the subject of the second one is not. Therefore, "so as to" is not equivalent to "so that" here. In another word, "so that" is required, and it cannot be replaced by "so as to".

3. "lacking so much in math skills" isn't the same as "so lacking in math skills".

    lacking so much........"so" modifies "much"

    so lacking..................."so" modifies "lacking"

ring_cheng

got it, thanks!