[求助]大全702(OG73)中them的指代问题

1.        The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them

(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary

(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event

(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event（D）

(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it

In choices A and B, the pronoun them has no antecedent; furthermore, the if clause in B must take should rather than would. In C, necessary militarily is awkward and vague. E is wordy and garbles the meaning with incorrect word order. Choice D is best: its phrasing is clear, grammatical, and idiomatic. Moreover, D is the choice that most closely parallels the construction of the nonunderlined portion of the sentence. The sentence states that the Admiralty and the War Office met to consider x and y, where x is the noun phrase a possible Russian attempt. D provides a noun phrase, military action, that matches the structure of x more closely than do the corresponding noun elements in the other choices.

would和should这个语言点的分析我看懂了，可是不明白解释中的第一句（即highlight的这句），为什么them没有被指代的先行词，难道不是“The British Admiralty and the War Office”吗？

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the n and n office  单数名词，them无法指代。不要被迷惑。

A中两个them指代不一致。第二个them看起来像指代attempt，也是单数。所以说没有指代对象。

B同理……

我不觉得这是一个单数名词
首先，这里不是the n and n office，而是the n and the n，如果是一个单数名词，war office前不能有the；例如the writer and editor of this book is A，指的才是A是这本书的作者及编者（作者及编者是一个词）

其次，如果是一个名词，后面的met何解？我理解的是The British Admiralty和The War Office碰在一起……

继续讨论……

好像蛮有道理的
谢谢

(A)  .og的解释说的时them没有指代,而不是they,they的确指代The British Admiralty and the War Office是两个单位.但在一句话中they和them指代对象应该一致,也就是说应该是同一个指代对象的主格和宾格.而them就不合理了. how they(两个单位) would have to act militarily to deal with them(两个单位)逻辑不通.而不是你说的The British Admiralty and the War Office是一个单数名词.

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我觉得Ａ选项中的they是指the n and the n ,而后面的them显然不是指它们的~应该是指那个attempt

所以指代不一样显然是错的~所以就用了an event来指代了attempt这个名词短语..