一道PREP题目请教

huanmingloj

A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.


a) that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing

b) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, possibly as a result of an increase in

c) that creatures of the seabed were suffering because of food supplies, which were dwindling possibly as a result of increasing

d) creatures of the seabed that were suffering from food supplies that were dwindling, possibly resulting from an increase in

e) creatures of the seabed that were suffering because food supplies were dwindling, which possibly resulted from increasing

选啥啊，NN

tonger

这个...我理解可能是歧义的原因：
resulting from在逗号后可能引起歧义，分不清修饰的是什么

个人意见仅供参考哈~

huanmingloj

那个我之前看过了，还是谢谢，但是为什么，逗号+resulting from 就不行呢？

是不是修饰有歧义，还是修饰不了food supplies?

tonger

这里是论坛里的一个回复

consensus is that you just can't have 'resulting from' after a comma.
   
you can have it as an adjective modifier, without a comma - as in the following sentence:

the flooding resulting from the abnormally strong storms had left six inches of standing water in the street.note that the boldface is an adjective modifier, modifying 'flooding'.

   
it appears that on the gmat, as well as in standard written english
in general, 'resulting from' after a comma is generally considered
unacceptable.


choice b features the standard use of a prepositional phrase as an adverb modifier:

'(possibly) as a result of', like other prepositional phrases that follow commas, serves to modify the action of the preceding clause (i.e., were dwindling).  this is totally standard usage, so make sure you know it.

huanmingloj

你能给我详细的讲解下A 中的resulting from 的用法吗？谢谢

百草花园

选B~
D、E没有用'that'引导宾语从句，直接排除！
A在逗号后用'resulting from'，语法错误
'possibly as a result of increasing'是用来修饰'dwindling of food supplies'而不是'food supplies',这样排除A、C