我先举个章振邦语法书上的例子,是用and连接并列分句,但却没有用逗号的。 Think it over again and you will find a way out.(表示条件) Mary likes music and Jim is fond of sports.(表示对比) 如果按上面的例子看来,B中没有逗号是应该允许的。但是,OG135中说,the inclusion of it requires a comma after classics to set off the new independent clause.再看OG179中,the comma required before and in larger compound sentences is ommited.意思是说,在大的复合分句中and前的逗号不能省。(而至于分句里面的小分句结构的逗号可不可以省,OG中如果有提的话,请知会我) 再看本题: Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities. - is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,
- is so reflective that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,
- so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else
- reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or
- reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did
YET是该句子的大复合结构,和前半句构成转折意义的并列结构,而YET引出的分句里面包括两个小分句,即是:the temperatures are so cold 和 the ice cap is so reflective,如果在第二个分句前加,and,是否有可能造成与YET并列的嫌疑?这样的话,句子的结构是不是因此混乱了? 我因此猜测,是否在复合分句的小分句结构里,and来连接两分句可不用逗号? 实在是无法解释了。而从章振邦的语法书上的例子看来是可以的,还请大家指正!
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