Ron神对GWD-9-Q17的分析理解以及追问 大家来吸收一下

sunyuwei

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

看了这道题目，选出正确答案其实不难，但是对于with 的分析还是值得一看的。上了Manhattan看了Ron神的一些分析，下面是他对于with 这个问题的分析

"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..."

(e) doesn't have this problem.

看到这里我想到了一个问题，这个问题也是有人追问的：

I understand your point on the usage of essential modifiers, but is it possible that the structure here is "with sb/sth doing sth"?
To be more clear, here's the example:
-We jumped into the water with bullets whizzing past our ears.
-with their son attending a foreign college, the parent have some finacial problems
-I can't do my homework with all this noise going on.

大神的回答是：

In this structure, with could be used to explain a reason. So opening their utility markets to competition is not a modifier rather than ''with sb/sth doing sth"structure?

I do see your point.
But, in your examples, note how closely related the modifiers are to the clauses they're describing. ("with all this noise going on" directly describes the situation and the reason why you can or can't do your homework. "with their son attending..." directly describes the situation and the reason why the family has financial issues. etc.)
You don't have the same kind of relationship in this problem.这里的意思是否是with 后面的内容是要是要与所表达的内容是要有直接关系的？

另外，我想到了独立主格作状语的问题，那么如果这道题改成
The merger of ... a huge marketing network for the utilities in question , with states opening their utility markets to competition.是否正确？

红字部分还请大神解答一下。。

sunyuwei

最近肿么都没人回帖。。

supershuang

as比with好

loveeyore

我和楼主一样的困惑，