OG13-132,请BAT和BABY姐姐来指点下

qiuhua01234567

132.Although appearing less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins, heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year—they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises—heirlooms are more flavorful and thus in increasing demand.

(A) Although appearing less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins, heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year

(B) Although heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year, appear less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins

(C) Although they appear less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins, heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year

(D) Grown from seeds saved during the previous year, heirloom tomatoes appear less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins

(E) Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year, although they appear less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins
（1）A和C中都提到了heirloom tomatoeshas no predicate，这个是什么意思？是说heirloom和heirloom tomatoes 不能同时做主语？
（2）关于D的问题。BAT在帖子里http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-735356-1-1.html，baby姐姐在帖子里http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_SC/thread-735522-1-1.html，我同意BAT，如果这是个RUN-ON，那么B做何解释？而D里OG的官方解释里是：Beginning the sentence with the explanatory clausegrown from seeds … gives it too much importance.

我认为可能就是需要强调的要放句首，不能把修饰放在句首，你们觉得呢？D的最大错误个人觉得是少了although，改变原意。
（3）B,C。C不正确，我同意，但是我觉得B答案不是最好，因为有种感觉修改原句的味道。求NN帮忙。

Beginning the sentence with the explanatory clausegrown from seeds … gives it too much importance.

我认为可能就是需要强调的要放句首，不能把修饰放在句首，你们觉得呢？D的最大错误个人觉得是少了although，改变原意。
（3）B,C。C不正确，我同意，但是我觉得B答案不是最好，因为有种感觉修改原句的味道。求NN帮忙。

qiuhua01234567

CD抽了，最后一句是（2）里面的，字体没法好好调整，谢谢。。

qiuhua01234567

自顶。。。

DUKB24

when the original sentence is grammatically incorrect，you should not worry the change of meaning

especially this question has four grammatically incorrect choices

lelechen1107

我也纠结在问题1

qiuhua01234567

when the original sentence is grammatically incorrect，you should not worry the change of meaning

especially this question has four grammatically incorrect choices

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/9/2 20:01:51)

yep,it is sure that we can chose the right answer as soon as possible.however, i think it is very important to find out why it is wrong?

DUKB24

when the original sentence is grammatically incorrect，you should not worry the change of meaning

especially this question has four grammatically incorrect choices

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/9/2 20:01:51)

yep,it is sure that we can chose the right answer as soon as possible.however, i think it is very important to find out why it is wrong?

-- by 会员 qiuhua01234567 (2012/9/2 21:45:06)

刚才没看到你问A选项的那个。。。sorry
现在稍微谈下自己的看法：


.Although appearing less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins, heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year—they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises—heirlooms are more flavorful and thus in increasing demand.


Although引导的状语从句，heirloom tomatoes是主语，grown修饰tomatoes，然后分号是提供额外信息，注意分号后的hierlloms又是一个主语（分号是不能隔开句子的）


所以这就是OG说为什么heirloom tomatoes没有predicate，因为后面的heirlooms抢了

qiuhua01234567

when the original sentence is grammatically incorrect，you should not worry the change of meaning

especially this question has four grammatically incorrect choices

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/9/2 20:01:51)

yep,it is sure that we can chose the right answer as soon as possible.however, i think it is very important to find out why it is wrong?

-- by 会员 qiuhua01234567 (2012/9/2 21:45:06)

刚才没看到你问A选项的那个。。。sorry
现在稍微谈下自己的看法：


.Although appearing less appetizing than most of their round and red supermarket cousins, heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved during the previous year—they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises—heirlooms are more flavorful and thus in increasing demand.


Although引导的状语从句，heirloom tomatoes是主语，grown修饰tomatoes，然后分号是提供额外信息，注意分号后的hierlloms又是一个主语（分号是不能隔开句子的）


所以这就是OG说为什么heirloom tomatoes没有predicate，因为后面的heirlooms抢了

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/9/2 22:01:04)

非常感谢，其他两个问题能否也给予一点帮助呢？

DUKB24

umm，其实按照我刚才说的对句子结构的理解

你可以看出除了正确选项其他选项的结构都是不符合语法的（correctness永远是第一位的么！）


关于D选项，我也曾经对OG这个解释有疑惑，为什么有种解释的意味呢（umm，这里我觉得OG的解释不太好，至少如果在这题你能这样理解，其他句型你这样理解肯定就完蛋了）；去掉although肯定是改变句意的


例如：born in GZ，Obama is a leader（按照OG的解释，奥巴马不在广州长大就不能当领导了？）但是这样的句子你很常见不是么？表强调么？no，just a extra information


PS：


关于D选项这个成分，究其根源就是一个modifier，modifier的作用是什么？provide extra information
可以提供关于一个动词（verb modifier）或者名词（noun modifier）一些额外的信息：例如（how/when/where/what/why)


这里OG的解释只是把这个modifier的角色理解成了why，但不是说明modifier放在前面就一定是解释why
正如你的comma+ving modifier不总是表达unavoidable consequence，也有可能是simultaneous action


hope it helps/open to discussion

qiuhua01234567

很纠结你的这句话“这里OG的解释只是把这个modifier的角色理解成了why，但不是说明modifier放在前面就一定是解释why”，能否给予更多的帮助。
你觉得是不是前面修饰东西太多了？所以不能倒置？