PREP2-25

There is a widespread belief in the United States and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the "work ethic."

(A) a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

(B) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents

(C) a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents

(D) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had

(E) a lessening of the commitment to work and a career that their parents and grandparents had

D,想问一下had 改did行不行?当初就是觉得用had 奇怪才没选的,因为have 在这里是实意动词,比较的时候不是应该用do did之类的代替吗?请指教

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选对了D.但LZ提的问题还真没考虑.呼唤NN...

好吧，那我先来说一下我的想法

比较对象是young people和their parents and grandparents
(A) (B) (C)如果没有补出助动词，无法看出到底是主格相比还是受格相比，砍

(D)中使用had表示过去时间，句意是：”现在” young people have less of a commitment to work and a career和”过去” their parents and grandparents had have less of a commitment to work and a career相比

还是不明白

请教less of a commitment and a career ,这里的less是little的比较级吗？

可是less后面应该是加不可数名词吧？赐教。。

还有，本题中能不能理解为：young people 的commitment to work and a career 与 their parents and grandparents 的commitment to work and a career 比较，这样的话是不是可以选C答案，请指教

(C) a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents

这题其实换几个词就是这样的一个句子：

I have less money than my parents had in the old days.

按lz的意思就变成了 I have less money than my parents did in the old days.

这样看似乎do不能替换have

按5楼的意思就变成了 I have less money than my parents had have in the old days.

这里不需要用完成时，一般过去时以区分现在和过去就可以了

按ls的意思就变成了 I have less money than that of my parents in the old days.

从题目中看不出来比较物是哪2个

如果比较物是i和my parents，那么就不对，必须对称，要像最上面的句子一样。

如果比较物是money，那么c看似就对。可是，而c错在smaller上面。

为什么呢？顺便尝试解答一下7楼的问题:“请教less of a commitment to a career ,这里的less是little的比较级吗？可是less后面应该是加不可数名词吧？赐教。"

这里正是要不可数的修饰词. 这里不是比较双方谁的commitment多（不是在数量上的比较），不是说我有3个commitment，我父母有5个，而是在比较commitment的程度，。所以不用smaller用less。

请指教。

同问，OG10里有一道经典的比较：OG10/19

Rice has protein of higher quality than that in wheat

按照庖丁解牛的说法：这是宾语的比较啊!

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