OG 67 - 再问

67. Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for sick or newbom children.

(A)  provide workers with unpaid leave so as to

(B)  to provide workers with unpaid leave so as to

(C)  provide workers with unpaid leave in order that they

(D)  to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can

(E)   provide workers with unpaid leave and

Choices A, C, and E are ungrammatical because, in this context, requiring ... employers must be followed by an infinitive. These options display additional faults: in A, so as to fails to specify that the workers receiving the leave will be the people caring for the infants and children; in order that they, as used in C, is imprecise and unidiomatic; and E says that the bill being debated would require the employers themselves to care for the children. Choice B offers the correct infinitive, to provide, but contains the faulty so as to. Choice D is best.

以前大家讨论过，见以下链接。

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=23&ID=21126

我的问题是，为什么在答案D中，"so that they can" 里的 they 没用代词指代不清的问题。我觉得在语法上和意义上，they 都可以指代"employers" and "workers". 所以我觉得D不好。

请指教！

如果你了解北美的背景,就不会认为they指代"employers". employers是不会管你的孩子的.

我做这题的时候是选的b.当时认为b比d简洁.今天翻了几页英文的语法书,知道b是不对的,so as 后的动词不定式缺逻辑主语.

一点猜测,仅供参考.

这里的workers with unpaid leave 可以当成一个名词短语，require sb to do sth.they就可以指代certain employers 。

so as to要求前后逻辑主语一致，前面部分的逻辑主语是workers with unpaid leave，后面的逻辑主语只能是人，所以用so as to 错。仔细体会其中的逻辑意思。

同问。

我同意valarie的意见，从句主语代词一般优先指代主句主语，在这里就应该优先指代employers.但从逻辑上当然应该指代workers,这样应该是一种指代不清的错误。我们的理解有哪里不对吗？哪位NN给解释一下？

我也有这样的疑惑，请问有人能解惑吗??求助!!

该题VALARIE MM没有理解句子的意思，该句是要求顾主们提供不记薪的时间让员工们去照顾员工的孩子们！

正解，请仔细参考LEEON GG的解释！

Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.

不会吧....我一直以为这个they应该是指workers不是employers吧???

是employers 给员工假让这些员工有办法去照顾孩子不是吗??

我的疑惑和caterpillar mm 一样，从句主语代词一般优先指代主句主语，在这里就应该优先指代employers.但从逻辑上当然应该指代workers,这样应该是一种指代不清的错误。请指正。

而且依据

要怎么看出来B so as to 的逻辑主语不是人啊??(当然是人做出care for sick or newborn children的动作不是吗?)

谢谢!!

SORRY，刚才手慢，思路太快，少打几个字，CLELIA MM指正的对，现已修改。

正如 LEEON GG所说， SO AS TO对句子逻辑主语要求很高。 该句，句中SO AS TO 前面的逻辑主语是ENPLOYERS，但后面care for sick or newborn children 的逻辑主语是什么呢？ 大家都已经判断出来应该是WORKERS。

那么问题就出现了，逻辑主语前后不一致。一个是EMPLOYERS，一个是WORKERS。所以 SO AS TO不适用与该句。

所以ETS选出了 D， 因为SO THAT 支持句子前后逻辑主语不一致。