OG(VR)56

[alva0930]

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

對OG的解釋有一部分看不太懂，
The idiom independently from is different in meaning from the idiom independent of; the logic of this sentence requires the use of independently from.

到底independently from與independent of在句意上的差別是什麼呢？為何這一題只能用independently from呢？

[dibert8]

independent from... : 從...獨立出來
Children have been independent from their original families since they were married.
independent of : 不相關
Students should aim to become independent of their teachers.

[alva0930]

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