求助OG13 SC 85题

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bejamin1111 发表于 2013-4-11 07:20
that没有清晰的指代,指代majority的嫌疑很大。以下是ron更为详细的解释:
'that of earlier generations' i ...

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That sentence doesn't really cut it. Here's why:

The correct choice in the original post has a very clear parallel structure: is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was (a goal) of earlier generations. Because of the strong parallelism, there's nothing else that the end phrase could possibly refer to.

In your most recent sentence, however, 'that of earlier generations' is a problem. Specifically, 'that of' doesn't have a clear referent, because there's no strong parallel structure to determine it anymore. It could conceivably stand for 'goal', 'majority', or perhaps even 'freestanding house' or 'land'. And if you go by the best possible parallelism, 'that of' seems to refer to a majority, because that's the word placed right before '...OF young adults' (which seems to work in parallel with '...OF earlier generations').



Here's another way of thinking about it:
Generally, you use 'as' to compare VERBS or WAYS in which things happen.
Generally, you use 'like' THINGS (nouns).

So the first example in this thread uses 'as' because of the comparison between VERBS/WAYS ('as it was of...'). Notice that, if the sentence were written in a manner that compared nouns or noun phrases (such as 'The goal of the current generation, LIKE THAT OF previous generations, is...'), then you'd use 'like'.