GWD 6-29疑问

GWD6-29的答案是：Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

句子的结构是：XXX parents are more likely than XXXV parents to have children who as XX are xxxxxxx,xxxx,and xxx

这样的句式正确吗？

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这个句式，以前激烈地讨论过。我一时找不到那个贴子了。

有人认为这样才对：

XXX parents are more likely than  are XXXVparents to have children who as XX are xxxxxxx,xxxx,and xxx

对了，你不是认为as XX中的XX与前面的XXX和XXXV有关系吧。。。它是介宾，只与who发生关系。

凭语感，我读上去，觉得没有问题。

A are more likely than B to have C who are xxx,xxx,and xxx as xxx

这个问题我也想知道。

I have never seen that "Rather than" is leading a sentence. It is just like "than" - you will never write "than B, A is more ...". I strongly believe "rather than" 不能放到句首.

请见：

1.                  大全--595：

Rather than continue to produce most of the items necessary for subsistence, a growing number of farm families during the first decades of the nineteenth century began to specialize in the production of grain or cotton and to use the cash proceeds from selling their crops for buying necessities.

(A) selling their crops for buying

(B) the sales of their crops for buying

(C) their selling of crops so as to buy

(D) their selling crops for buying of

(E) the sale of their crops to buy  

但不是划线部分。Rather than 再不在句首不是考点。。

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