求问more和greater

酸辣年糕 · 发表于 2017-1-4 19:34:15

Even though the costs of paying baseball players amounts to a sum greater than one half of the overall cost of operating a Major League Baseball team last year, Major League Baseball franchise owners were still willing to pay increasingly higher salaries to top players.

		amounts to a sum greater
		amounts to more
		amounted to more
		amounted to a greater sum
		amounted to greater

答案：C

比较amount的时候要用greater，是要很明确的指出是比较amount吗？因为感觉这里the costs of...也很明确的指出了是要比较amount呀

5Day · 发表于 2017-1-8 23:39:54

个人理解，希望有帮助。

这里的amount是动词，主语为前面的costs，因为根据主谓一致排除AB。more用于修饰不可数名词，greater修饰可数名词，后面one half of the overall cost 是不可数的，因此用more，选C不选E。D个人感觉除了greater外，顺序也不对，应该是amounted to a sum greater than... greater than引导后置定语修饰这个sum。

lisa001 · 发表于 2019-8-20 10:56:56

5Day 发表于 2017-1-8 23:39
个人理解，希望有帮助。

这里的amount是动词，主语为前面的costs，因为根据主谓一致排除AB。more用于修饰 ...

我们思路差不多。
greater通常是指程度的大小，这里明显是钱的比较，不太适合greater；在看句意，amount to sum greater than,变成了sum的程度和钱比较，不合逻辑。

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