Professor Wendham danied his teaching assistant's request to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of to type them up using a computer.
A.to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of to type them up using
E.to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form rather than type them up using
答案选E
就两个选项有点搞不清。答案的解释居然是A中的them指代不清,可以指papers or students。 那E里不是也有相同的问题么??
然后这个地方主要是平行吧。但是rather than 后面应该是不能加to的。所以我认为A里面的平行更好。还是说在instead of后面的to 应该要省略呢。
OG verbal 分册上sc95题有关于instead of 用法的解释:
the construction x instead of y, when x and y are infinitives, is clumsy
the idiomatic construction x rather y is better here
从语法的角度看,instead of 是介词,只能用于名词成分(名词、动名词等)的平行,而rather than 是连词,既可以用于名词又可以用于动词。