prep12 24 名词的平行问题

lcy0403

While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive.
A. cost associated with
B. costs associated with
C. costs arising from
D. cost of
E. costs of

答案是B

with upgrading  and with the development of
一个是gerund,一个是名词，可以平行吗？

还是说这种名词平行的时候只存在于 a and b的情况；with a and b，a,b可以不平行？

曼哈顿不是说doing 名词不可以和 the n 名词平行吗？

请大牛指教

DUKB24

since upgrading is non-underlined, there is no such issue here

but if you really try to figure out what is actually going on here,here is my opinion


your understanding is right


in this circumstance


you better understand upgrading as complex gerund ( despite its noun form upgrade)


I have not idea why upgrading should be written here


development is action noun


so the two constructions can be parallel

lcy0403

谢谢你的回复先～～

曼哈顿里说： simple gerund phrases are never parallel to complex gerund phrases

complex gerund= the+ action noun + of

如果upgrading 按照simple gerund来理解，而不是按照形容词来理解，那么upgrading(simple gerund)是不应该和 the+ development(complex gerund)平行的。

我不理解的点是，这种不能平行的方式是否只适用于 a and b结构，如果前面加了介词with，这条rule就不能apply啦？

或者这里的upgrading就单纯是个adj而已。。就跟sleeping cat 一样。。。

欢迎拍砖~~~~

DUKB24

谢谢你的回复先～～

曼哈顿里说： simple gerund phrases are never parallel to complex gerund phrases

complex gerund= the+ action noun + of

如果upgrading 按照simple gerund来理解，而不是按照形容词来理解，那么upgrading(simple gerund)是不应该和 the+ development(complex gerund)平行的。

我不理解的点是，这种不能平行的方式是否只适用于 a and b结构，如果前面加了介词with，这条rule就不能apply啦？

或者这里的upgrading就单纯是个adj而已。。就跟sleeping cat 一样。。。

欢迎拍砖~~~~

-- by 会员 lcy0403 (2012/10/21 8:29:52)

nope， you cannot understand in this way


upgrading will never parallel to a noun if understood as adj


also，development is action noun，you should further check it out
the developing is complex gerund   （ it seems that you are a little bit confused about the differences， you should reread the manhattan）


upgrading here are more prone to be understood as simple gerund (because there are no article"a/ an/the“ preceding it）


but actually


it cannot make sense to be a simple gerund because only complex gerund can parallel to action noun


you should understand upgrading as complex gerund here although it is not preceded by any articles




the rule applies here


if you have any further questions， just post them up

lcy0403

终于明白了
翻了一下书，complex gerunds are noun like，句意理解with upgrading data equipment 的确是noun like
重要的是 冠词是optional的。。

多谢多谢～～～