The two oil companies agreed to merge their refining and marketing operations in the Midwest and the West, forming a new company for controlling nearly fifteen percent of the nation's gasoline sales.
(A) forming a new company for controlling
(B) forming a new company that would control
(C) which would form a new company that controlled
(D) which formed a new company for controlling
(E) which formed a new company that would control
我选的A，当时觉得B的would感觉很奇怪，为什么要用这个时态啊？
作者: mslancaster 时间: 2012-4-20 04:32
不是时态，是语气
因为a new company现在还没成立，因此这里只能用to control或者that would control表示这是一种目的或者一种虚拟的状态。