OG250 没有讨论过的代词省略问题

250. The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.

(A)  had expected it to and its business will improve

(B)  had expected and that its business would improve

(C)  expected it would and that it will improve its business

(D)  expected them to and its business would improve

(E)   expected and that it will have improved its business

B, the best choice, avoids errors of agreement, correctly uses the parallel construction that x and that y, and uses would rather than will to refer to a promised but uncertain future event. In A and C, singular it after expected has no grammati­cal referent: its antecedent cannot be The company, but rather must be the plural profits. Choices A and C also contain errors of verb form, using will where would is required. Choices A and D fail to maintain parallel structure: properly formed, the construction would have that after expected to parallel that after announced. Furthermore, in D, the addition of them to is unnecessary. Choice E illogically uses the future perfect will have improved to suggest completion of an action that will be continuous in the second half of the year.

这里为什么them要去掉呢? 感觉不去也可以的?

Because it's unidiomatic.

有没有从语法角度的其它说法呢?

我知道A中的it ,will 都不对，我想问的是，

OG11的解释说A，the second announcement is not clear。哪里不clear了？我觉得就是省略了that啊，the company announced that its profits declined.....and its business would improve.....这里that 不能省略吗？

The company announced
                that
                its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.