og 12 SC 127 问平行！！（已解决）

ainiAnnie

First, I agree with suri on the usage of "persuade".

Regarding your question about the parallelism, Ron taught us -
We should always check grammatical parallelism and, more importantly but less noticed among students, logical parallelism.

Just think about the meaning - She did two independent things:
1. turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orléans
2. persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
Come on lady, "persuade sb. to claim his throne" has absolutely NOTHING to do with "English victories", right?

So, the point here is NOT whether we could grammatically say "by doing A and doing B" - indeed this structure is grammatically acceptable.
The REAL point here is the logic - you CANNOT make two random events parallel as you want.

127. Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orléans and she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.

(A) she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne

(B) persuaded Charles VII of France in claiming his throne

(C) persuading that the throne be claimed by Charles VII of France

(D) persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne

(E) persuading that Charles VII of France should claim the throne

正确答案是D，第一遍做的时候做错了，选了E，认为 liberating 和 persuading 平行。

后来查了帖子，没有什么详细的解答，其中有一位CDer说，介词不可以省略，只有 be 和 to 可以省略…

求解答，liberating 和 persuading为什么不能平行？是因为介词不能省略么？省略问题（只有be 和 to 可以省略？），求真相。

-- by 会员 ainiAnnie (2012/3/19 20:41:22)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/20 17:33:42)

谢谢baby姐~还有就是关于比较省略的问题，Ron在哪里有讲解啊？？？一直比较模糊。。。。

babybearmm

http://www.manhattangmat.com/thursdays-with-ron.cfm
Watch the two lectures last year, as well as the recent two lectures on "and"

You may also refer to the following threads:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/there-are-hopeful-signs-that-t3322.html
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/in-the-1980-s-the-rate-of-increase-t10280-15.html

ainiAnnie

http://www.manhattangmat.com/thursdays-with-ron.cfm
Watch the two lectures last year, as well as the recent two lectures on "and"

You may also refer to the following threads:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/there-are-hopeful-signs-that-t3322.html
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/in-the-1980-s-the-rate-of-increase-t10280-15.html

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/21 5:34:24)

今天停网一天，回宿舍才登上。。。大爱大谢baby姐~

ainiAnnie

今天又看这道题，觉得og的解释很好：
Here persuading is linked to liberating, but even if it were said that Joan did turn the tide
of English victories by persuading Charles to claim the throne, a person cannot be said to
persuade a clause (that the thrown be claimed), a person persuades another person or other
entity; be claimed by is wordy.
我现在的理解是： persuading和liberating平行逻辑上是可以讲通的，即她做了两件事来扭转局面（但一般情况下如果gmat希望是这样的平行就会补出介词来引导你）但由于persuade的错误用法排除了这种可能。

change17251

ainiAnnie 发表于 2012-9-16 13:39
今天又看这道题，觉得og的解释很好：Here persuading is linked to liberating, but even if it were said  ...

恩恩 我也赞成liberating and persuading 逻辑上可以平行  只是选项中persuading 后面都是接的that-clause  这样意思就不对了   就像OG说的 a person cannot be said to persuade a clause , a person can only persuade another person or other entity
而且原句中she persuaded C VII  of France to claim his 应该是暗示了与tured the tide 平行