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标题: OG20-778 so that的疑惑 [打印本页]

作者: 诸星纱夜    时间: 2020-10-14 22:49
标题: OG20-778 so that的疑惑
Especially in the early years, new entrepreneurs may need to find resourceful ways, like renting temporary office space or using answering services, that make their company seem large and more firmly established than they may actually be.
A) that make their company seem large
B) to make their companies seem larger
C) thus making their companies seem larger
D) so that the companies seem larger
E) of making their company seem large

正确答案选择B 但有点疑惑该怎么排除D选项

Manhattan中说so that的正确用法是用来表purpose:这里的 the companies seem larger的确是purpose;

OG官方解释:clauses begining so that can express purpose,but do not fit with ways in the manner required here:to or of is needed after ways
(???这个解释我更懵逼了

在国外的beat论坛看到的一个老师的解释:
(D) new entrepreneurs may need to find resourceful ways so that the companies seem larger
This option is also INCORRECT because the phrase "so that" doesn't work here. "So that" is meant to show that one person does an action so that another person can do/no do something as a result. Since a company is not a person, it doesn't make sense to use it here. Saying "to" is much clearer and shows a direct purpose.
(???是这样吗

希望大神们指教!

作者: 长丝弓    时间: 2020-10-15 04:26
关于此题,GmatLa的大神是这样解释的:
本题中的插入语like renting temporary office space or using answering services比较讨厌,容易让人搞不清划线部分同语境的关系。实际上,我们可以把这个插入语先扔掉,句子主干变为:
New entrepreneurs may need to find resourceful ways that make their company seem large and more firmly established than they may actually be
这样就容易识别多了。

选项分析:

A选项:第一,their的指代对象是new entrepreneurs ,这些新企业家肯定是每个人拥有一个公司,而不是共有一个公司,因此,company应改为companies。
第二,本选项是一个定语从句,但这个定语从句应该改为不定式。究竟选择不定式还是从句是GMAT经常考查的考点。参考“不定式和名词的区别”。用之于本题,主句说已经需要去发现方法了,而方法的目的是让公司变得更大。因此,“发现方法”这个事件对“让公司变大”这个方法的目的事件有直接的影响,需要用不定式短语。
第三,large应该改为larger。这个很显然,因为全句都在描述一个对比的情况。

B选项:Correct. 本选项在语法和逻辑上均是正确的。

C选项:本选项是现在分词短语,做动作find的伴随状语。但逻辑上,“新企业家可能需要发现方法”和“新企业家把公司变得更大”之间没有因果关系。正确的关系应该是新企业需要发现那些能让公司变得更大的方法。

D选项:本选项错误同(A),即,选项部分应该用不定式。当然,本选项并不是和(A)相同的定语从句,而是一个结果状语从句。

E选项:large和company的错误均同(A)。我们主要需要通过本选项来讨论一下关于way to do和way of doing的区别。这点考查了不定式和ing的区别。用之于本题,需要根据句子的情况来选择way to do和way of doing,例如:

(1) I quite agree with you. That’s a better way of looking at it.
(2) **I quite agree with you. That’s a better way to look at it.

通常情况下,我们会说句(1),这是因为,无论这是不是一个更好的方法,都不影响“观看”这个事件的发生,只不过另外一个人可能提出了一个更好的角度来看待问题而已(所以,一般better way后面都加of)。又例如:
(3) **We must find a way of solving these problems.
(4) We must find a way to solve these problems.
通常情况下,我们会说句(4),这是因为,在“发现方法”这个事件对能否“解决困难”有很直接的影响。用之于本题,明显地,本选项和句(3)很像,这在逻辑上是不对的,应该用句(4),即,用to make而不是of making。


作者: Richard985    时间: 2020-10-15 23:40
简洁性原则吧
能用不定式表示目的,为什么非要啰嗦地用个目的状语从句

P. S.
so that 引导目的状语从句
so...that 才是结果状语从句
作者: 诸星纱夜    时间: 2020-10-19 11:39
感谢楼上的解答!我的理解也更偏向于最后是简洁性的比较哈
作者: 18年杀G呗    时间: 2020-10-19 14:56
跟简洁性没关系吧,就是句义上不是“目的”的意思。




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