konglxd

我来试着答答看~
我觉得关键还是看meaning，86题之所以要用which，是因为这里想要说的是profit的增减，而不是The results of the company's cost-cutting measures如何 evident in its profits;用comma+with...也就是adverbial modifier形容action的时候，你可以问一下how？how the action happen?
另外LZ仔细看一下会发现，如果这里用了 with a 5 percent increase during the first 3 months of this year after falling，（what increase?）我们就不知道到底是什么increase了5 percent；但是用which可以很清晰的知道是profit增加了5percent;原句的意思是说这个cost-cutting measures are evident in its profits; the profits increased 5 percent  increased 5 percent during the first 3 months of this year.  
另外，我记得有一个曼哈顿的instructor说过，如果其他modifier能够更清楚的表达主句和modifier之间关系的话，优先用别的modifier：
My understanding of the explanation is that the GMAT doesn't like absolute phrases (With the assigned homework having been completed, the children went out to play) and doesn't like "with" clauses when a more precise and concise relationship between the two things could be written
至于你说的第二句Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging like socks on a clothesline. 这里的with明显就是做adverbial modifier形容一个action，也就是sleeping on the branches,你可以问how does the monkeys sleep on the branches? oh they sleep with their arms and legs hanging like socks on a clothesline.

关键还是要看intended meaning要表达什么，然后从五个选项里选出最能表达这个meaning的写法~

konglxd

谢楼上回答~
所以这个的意思还是说with比较侧重于描述前面提到的具体的action，而不是某种状态和结果，是 ...
atlantiswind 发表于 2013-5-29 06:37

我忘了，貌似不是千行里的，我是曼哈顿论坛里面的看到的，当时摘录了下来。
comma+with或者comma+prepositional phrase，都是做adverbial modifier，正确的说法应该是modify  the preceding clause。那也就是包括了整套主谓。

konglxd

啊啊啊 那我又晕了
上面的86题和猴子的那个例子，如果用with。。。的话不都是修饰前面整套主谓 ...
atlantiswind 发表于 2013-5-30 19:03

    不是的，你仔细看86题它原句的意思：
The results of the company's cost-cutting measures are evident in its profits;
the profits  increased 5 percent during the first 3 months of this year.
是这么两层意思。之所以用which是为了说明profit如何
如果你用with，变成了 the results of the company's cost-cutting measures are evident。。。 with a 5 percent increase....这里的increase不再是说profit了，它的逻辑主语变成了the results.（就像我之前的答复，what increased? we just know there are something increase 5 percent, but is that profit?）但原句意思是在说profit增长，所以用which直接指代profit更加清楚，我们要遵从intended meaning。
还有 我记得以前ron还说过，with有时候还会被人解释成 the results of the company's cost-cutting measure actually have a 5 percent increase----- this does not make sense.

comma+with是adverbial modifier 修饰preceding clause，但是你这里不是要修饰preceding clause，而是根据原意要修饰profit，一个noun，所以要用which！而不是用with！
我说用how the action happen，是让你用这个方式来判断comma+with是否能够清晰的表达intended meanning，不是说这个就是对的，如果没法表达intended meaning，就不用了。这题就不行~


我无法说的更加清楚了= =  如果没能帮到你，sorry。。。

konglxd

啊啊啊 那我又晕了
上面的86题和猴子的那个例子，如果用with。。。的话不都是修饰前面整套主谓 ...
atlantiswind 发表于 2013-5-30 19:03

So the word "with" in D introduces a lack of clarity throughout the underlined portion - the increase is vague and the verb "falling" has no subject
LZ再仔细看一下OG的解释，其实已经说得非常清楚了，我加粗的地方你好好看一下，尤其是这句“the increase is vague”,这就是我之前说得，what increases? 原文说的很清楚，it is the profit that  increases. 用with显然不能清晰的表达
My understanding of the explanation is that the GMAT doesn't like absolute phrases (With the assigned homework having been completed, the children went out to play) and doesn't like "with" clauses when a more precise and concise relationship between the two things could be written