语法题请教！

bingc2012

Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest
that the Australian egg-laying mammals of today are a
branch of the main stem of mammalian evolution
rather than developing independently from a common
ancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago.
(A) rather than developing independently from
(B) rather than a type that developed independently
from
(C) rather than a type whose development was
independent of
(D) instead of developing independently from
(E) instead of a development that was independent of

请教：independently of 和indenpendently from 的区别，谢谢！

sisichen666

这道题其实还是应该从平行入手，不过LZ问的independently of 是“与...无关”；indenpendently from是“独立，自主”

bingc2012

谢谢！

kiwifoodtown

首先，要纠正一下LZ，应该是independent of 和indenpendently from，这两个没有可比性，independent 是形容词，在系动词后就作表语，或直接修饰名词。而indenpendently是副词，是修饰动词。至于具体解释，LSS已经解释过了。