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[julanlu808]

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According to two teams of paleontologists, recent fossil discoveries in Pakistan show that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than to any other mammals.

(A) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than
(B) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--as
(C) whales, porpoises, and dolphins to be more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than they are
(D) whales, porpoises, and dolphins as being more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--as they are
(E) whales, porpoises, and dolphins as more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today include cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than

Ans: A

(B)more.....as==> more...than
(C)show + that
(D)show + that ; more.....as==> more...than
(E)show + that

答案A沒有問題,唯一想請教的是...

(A) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than

這裡includes的主語是a group of hoofed mammals還是today?

[dibert8]

today 是時間副詞.

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

123. (30997-!-item-!-188;#058&004357)



(A) that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than

這裡includes的主語是a group(主語) of hoofed mammals還是today?

[larry.tw]

這種題目
a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels.......

請問怎麼知道includes要去找a group還是mannals當主詞??
我以為that都只能找最近的前面名詞(mammals)

[Philosophia]

To larry.tw

這題最簡單的方法是看單複數
玄一點的講法：看句意
不過，我個人覺得，GMAT是很正式的英文，所以很多東西都是用 noun1 of noun2，這時noun1 or noun2 何者才是真正的名詞，何者才是作者的重點就不一定了，所以還是句意為上～

[larry.tw]

謝謝Philosophia 指導~~~

不過就是有些句意不暸...哈..才要靠技巧
那問一下 noun1 of noun2 which
這裡的which應該都只noun2 了吧!??還是也是要看句意?

[Philosophia]

To larry.tw

說指導不敢

我最愛的例子是 the power of love，若其後要接子句，你想作者會說明那一個名詞呢？所以才會說要以句意為主呀～

更正：基於親近原則，關係子句還是以修飾其所緊臨的名詞為主，但不排除其它可能性．所以，若是說技巧的話，當其它錯誤因素都被排除後，若是看不慬句意就以緊臨的名詞為主吧～

PS. 先前的發言已改為更嚴謹的說法，造成 larry.tw 的疑惑，深感遺憾．

[Philosophia]

最近在研究比較級～請問為何 than 之後要加上 to 呢？

According to two teams of paleontologists, recent fossil discoveries in Pakistan show that whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates--a group of hoofed mammals that today includes cows, camels, pigs, and hippos--than to any other mammals.

是因為它是受詞的比較嗎？

若是如此，其還原句是否為
whales, porpoises, and dolphins are more closely related to some of the oldest known even-toed ungulates than (they are closely related) to any other mammals.

保留 to 只是為了告訴讀者，它是受詞的比較嗎？若是沒有 to 的話，是否會變成主詞的比較？還是會變成 ambiguity ?