[問題] 大全987-287

[airdog]

Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial methodological error by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their data.
(A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their
(B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their
(C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their
(D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the
(E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her

答案是D
不過想瞭解一下從failing改成not是否有竄改原意之嫌？
另外，後方的介系詞究竟是該用to還是of？

[dibert8]

failing vs not 意思都是"沒有". (failing 帶應做而未做的含意.) 句意上應該沒有太大的問題.

表目的用 to+V; 主詞是'人',可以做 classify 的動作.

[dibert8]

Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial methodological error by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their data.
(A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their
(B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their
(C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their
(D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the
(E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her

(A) (B) (C) 代名詞不一致
(C) 流水句
(B) (E) fully 雙向修飾

[airdog]

感謝回答～