对于Ron在manhattan上对于GWD-9-Q17的解释有自己的疑问，求讨论

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题目贴出Unlike most other mergers in the utility industry, which have been driven by the need to save money and extend companies’ service areas, the merger of the nation’s leading gas and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening their utility markets to competition.


(A) and electric company is intended to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question with states opening

(B) and electric companies are intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

(C) and electric companies are intended to create a huge network that will be marketing the utilities in question, with states opening

(D) company and electric company are intending to create a huge marketing network for the utilities in question, with states opening

(E) company and leading electric company is intended to create a huge network for marketing the utilities in question as states open

前面的解释都很认同，已经能够得到答案E了（谓语为is排除bcd,merger必须是两个公司才能合并排除a），不过对于A为什么错误的第二点解释有疑问。
* "with states opening..." is incorrect. when you have an -ING WITHOUT COMMA modifier, like this one, it's a RESTRICTIVE ("essential") modifier. this means that we're only talking about those states that are "opening their utility markets to competition", the implication being that only some states are doing so. the intended meaning is better conveyed by "as states open..."
这里的with states opening 难道不可以是with+n+宾补的伴随状语么，这样opening就不是states的restictive modifier了啊。

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http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/gas-electric-company-t7376.html

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cord2012

RON的意思好像是说： 不加逗号的with states opening 限制性的修饰了前面说的那种merger（the merger of the nation’s leading gas and） ，即只有states opening 的地方才有这种merger。而E说的是那种merger的出现是伴随states open their utility markets to competition 产生的

不知道我的想法对不对啊，大家一起讨论~

cord2012

我也好喜欢看 RON 的讲解，透彻！

高呆呆

RON的意思好像是说： 不加逗号的with states opening 限制性的修饰了前面说的那种merger（the merger of the nation’s leading gas and） ，即只有states opening 的地方才有这种merger。而E说的是那种merger的出现是伴随states open their utility markets to competition 产生的

不知道我的想法对不对啊，大家一起讨论~

-- by 会员 cord2012 (2012/8/14 23:07:36)

"when you have an -ING WITHOUT COMMA modifier"这个来自于：Ron多次强调这个概念：
"no comma+v-ing"是noun modifier, 遵从touch rule
"comma+v-ing" 是adverbial modifier, modifies the entire action of the preceding clause and applies to the subject within that clause.
而与前面的with是无关的。
这里我把with states opening看成一个整体的话，构成伴随状语，就不是opening在修饰states了。
我在语法区也发了这个问题，http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-748816-1-1.html
有位同学回答了，他的意思是in question with是一个整体，但是我不知道有没有这个Idiom以及他的意思是森莫。。。待我问他一下。。

春雨Q

RON的解释也把我弄懵了。。。跟CD笔记不一样。。。版主和牛牛来解答一下嘛

tjwen93

With不可以不加“，”直接跟在独立句后面 ---OG13 Q128

supershuang

as比with好