It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praise for its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal.
(A) It was only after Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and it was under her command that the paper won high praise
(B) It was only after Katharine Graham's becoming publisher of The Washington Post in 1963 that it moved into the first rank of American newspapers, and under her command it had won high praise
(C) Katharine Graham became publisher of The Washington Post in 1963, and only after that did it move into the first rank of American newspapers, having won high praise under her command
(D) Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham became its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post, winning high praise under her command
(E) Moving into the first rank of American newspapers only after Katharine Graham's becoming its publisher in 1963, The Washington Post won high praise under her command
问题：正确答案A中的第二个it 为什么就能够指代 The Washington Post, 而错误的C选项中的it就不能指代差不多结构的The Washington Post?
C has a problematic pronoun (it) - logically refers to Wash Post but structurally could refer to KG or publisher. Also, this sentence indicates that it moved into the first ranks as a result of having won high praise. The original sentence doesn't indicate that meaning and we can't just change the meaning of the sentence.
根据她的说法 A中的it又可以指代WP（跟C中的WP结构一样啊），所以 我就看不懂了。 我长用本网站 曼哈顿那个网站不熟悉 就是上去学习老师的解答。不好在那上面提问（估计也问不明白 或者还得注册 麻烦的）。所以 就回过头来问咱CD 的NN们了 请大家帮忙 看看C中的it是否有指代的问题？那个老师说的有错吗？谢谢啦作者: payo 时间: 2009-11-7 08:54
同意C是that的问题 另外就是C和原句意思完全不一样 原句前后两方面是并列关系 C变成了从属 原句的强调语气和平行在C中都没了 感觉it错误不大 不会有人理解成publisher moved into the first rank of American newspapers C还有个完成时作者: lorrain_cc 时间: 2009-11-7 13:17
恩,同意LS的C中it没有问题,因为WP离it是最近的,如果逻辑不出问题,那么是可以有就近原则的~所以同理,A中的it没有任何问题~ C还是that得问题作者: opensq 时间: 2009-11-9 20:37
我发现楼主的每一个回帖中都 发那个链接～～～～～真是与世界接轨阿作者: lessso 时间: 2010-5-16 16:38
it 为什么不会代指成1963年份啊 这不就代指不清楚了啊作者: ylj3618 时间: 2011-8-4 14:17
另外小妹想请教的是，一个句子里面it既可以是代词，也可以是形式主语咯？