GMAT语法题求指导
Accordingtoscholars,theearliestwritingwasprobablynotadirectrenderingofspeech,butwasmorelikelytobeginasaseparateanddistinctsymbolicsystemofcommunication,andonlylatermergedwithspokenlanguage.
(A)wasmorelikelytobeginas
(B)morethanlikelybeganas
(C)morethanlikelybeginningfrom
(D)itwasmorethanlikelybegunfrom
(E)itwasmorelikelythatitbegan
Idiom+Verbform
Thissentenceisacomparisoninwhichprobablynotxisbalancedbybutmorethanlikelyy.Whenmoreisusedinthecomparativeformofanadjective(moredifficult)oradverb(morelikely),itisfollowedbythan.Thewordsusedtoshowthecomparisonbetweenxandy,butmorethanlikely,mustalsointroducethecorrectverbform,allowingytofitgrammaticallyintotherestofthesentence.Thesubjectofthesentencehasthreeverbs,allofwhichshouldbeparallel:theearliestwritingwas...began...merged.Was...tobeginisnotparallelandresultsinaconstructionthatisnotgrammaticallycorrect.
AInthiscontext,morelikelyisnotacompleteidiomaticexpression;was...tobeginisnotparalleltowasandmerged.
BCorrect.Inthissentence,morethanlikelyisthecorrectcomparativeconstruction,thesimplepasttensebegan,paralleltowasandmerged,fitsgrammaticallyintothesentence.
CSubjectshouldbefollowedbythreeverbs;beginningfromisnotaverb.
DUseofthepronounitmakesthisconstructionamaincluase,inwhichcasethecommaaftercommunicationmustbeomittedandbeganmustbeusedtobeparalleltomerged;was...begunisnothecorrecttense.
EInthisawkward,unclear,andwordyconstruction,thefirstitmustbefollowedbyis,notwas,becausethetheoryiscurrent;theseconditactsasthesubjectofthesubordinateclause,andthisusagerequirestheomissionofthecommaaftercommunication.
ThecorrectanswerisB.
不能理解.
穆效江回答：
我觉得下面的英文解释已经很仔细了.
首先,DE错,前面已经有“theearliestwriting”作主语,后面不能加it吧
A错,因为不和用于习惯,这个就很难讲清楚了.那啥,觉得读得不顺吧,没有人这么用.
C错,因为两个半句要用一样的事态
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