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标题: "but instead" or "but rather" [打印本页]

作者: dmqyql 时间: 2004-6-8 00:51
标题: "but instead" or "but rather"

General Bennett's army could have marched on the enemy's position at once, but instead they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.

A but instead they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
B but instead it wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
C but rather they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
D but rather wintered in Kingston in order to rest themselves and build up desperately needed supplies.
E
but instead wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies for themselves.

I looked it up in the dictionary, army is a group noun and can be used as singular noun and plural noun, the answer to this question is B. what is the difference between B and C?

作者: jnlvo 时间: 2004-6-8 08:55

Gmat好像一般只根据army（名词本身）的单复数来定，除非另有暗示。

一般but rather前面要有否定词，longman:

not ... but rather ...
used to say that one thing is not true but a different thing is true
The problem is not their lack of funding, but rather their lack of planning

作者: futureflow 时间: 2010-10-8 23:21
这题有几个疑问 1：army是单复数同形词，在这题里怎么分辨是算复数还是单数？
2：instead和rather都能连接句子（OG12 50题），应该不用补出主语了吧？

这题很困惑呀~

作者: futureflow 时间: 2010-10-9 23:40
好像只有but rather 和 and instead

作者: endless1989 时间: 2010-10-9 23:53
Gmat好像一般只根据army（名词本身）的单复数来定，除非另有暗示
C的话负数就不对了

作者: Rain's 时间: 2013-10-11 20:05
Gmat一般只根据army（名词本身）的单复数来定
+1

but为连词，加一个副词instead, 所以but instead 可以接句子

but rather 前面一般都要有not

作者: visan_y 时间: 2017-8-1 16:21
同意楼上，不过我想补充一下but和instead

but（介词）+名词，不可以加instead
eg.prep08-208.(GWD-11-40)
Scientists who studied the famous gold field known as Serra Pelada concluded that the rich lode was not produced by the accepted methods of ore formation but that swarms of microbes over millions of years concentrated the gold from jungle soils and rivers and rocks.
B.not produced by the accepted methods of ore formation but instead swarms of microbes over millions of years that 语义重复，要删去instead

but（连词）+动词/句子，可以加instead本帖原题
General Bennett's army could have marched on the enemy's position at once, but instead they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.

作者: summer163 时间: 2018-2-6 10:58
想问下如果接介宾短语可以吗？

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A		but instead they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
B		but instead it wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
C		but rather they wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies.
D		but rather wintered in Kingston in order to rest themselves and build up desperately needed supplies.
E		but instead wintered in Kingston in order to rest and build up desperately needed supplies for themselves. I looked it up in the dictionary, army is a group noun and can be used as singular noun and plural noun, the answer to this question is B. what is the difference between B and C?