从OG 92看GWD 11-4的what是否可以省略

先看GWD 11-4

从OG 上看 as..as这样的连接中，对于相同部分是省略的，甚至是必须省略的，请牛人指点一下

92. Never before had taxpayers confronted so many

changes at once as they had in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

(A)  so many changes at once as they had in

(B)  at once as many changes as

(C)  at once as many changes that there were with

(D)  as many changes at once as they confronted in

(E)   so many changes at once that confronted them in

Choice D is the best answer, stating grammatically and clearly that, with the 1986 Tax Reform Act, taxpayers confronted more simultaneous changes than ever before. In choice A, the past perfect had [confronted] illogically places the 1986 events in the same time frame as Never before had...; a simple past tense is needed to present the 1986 events as following the earlier ones. Choices B and C awkwardly place at once between confronted and its direct object, changes. Furthermore, B illogically states that the Act itself was many changes, when the point is rather that it presented many changes, and as many ... that is an unidiomatic comparison. Choice E, too, presents an unidiomatic comparison with so many... that

相同部分的省略原则是没有歧义得前提下尽量省，但是有的时候，由于其他选项的关键错误，而正确选项偶尔不省也不是完全错误的；不过这里GWD的那题我认为不应该省what。

"what" is the object of the verb, estimate, so you can't leave out "what".

那么OG 92为什么不加个 what 做confront宾语呢

我选D 我认为E不对

一章振邦P1462

比较 as adj as 从句 这里的as

AS作关系代词，可用于the same..as/such..as/as..as等结构中，

He smoke cigarettes as expensive as he can afford.

OG92也是类似的例子

They want peace as much as we do. Helen comes to visit me as often as she can. I can't run as fast as I used to.

都说明D对  

而E中的what 不仅是错误的 而且是多余的

二 in any month since October 1987, 因为in July 已经不在十月之后的范围内

所以用in any month更合适

请指正

E.

1. 应该用any other. ETS不会想那么复杂, 给我们来"虚虚实实"这一套. 出现any other和any, any other必对.

2.

87年10月以后还是有7月的, hehe.

而且我觉得从时间顺序上说, 两个时间比较, A和Since B, A应该在B之后, 否则不合逻辑. 比如小布什是自老布什以来的最stupid的总统, 而不是老布什是自小布什以来的最stupid的总统.

3. 记得les说过, 有what不算错, 没有what就当是省略了.

to rhod:

AS用于as..as时 是关系代词

Some people have no doubt that their cat understand as many words as does a dog.=their cats can understand all the words which a dog understands.

so ,

sales of fund shares in July were not as low as an industry trade group had previously estimated.

as类似于which

所以what的补出纯属多余

谢谢

同意rhod的观点。

1. other一定要加，而且从逻辑上判断这个July是October, 1987之后的，因为有Since。

2. what可以省略，但不省不错。

3. 答案是比较出来的，是相对而言哪个更好。