GWD26-Q23 老题新问了，看了讨论贴依然不明了！

茉莉蔷薇

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which ownsthe Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains,
announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.
D

A.that since sales of up to one-fourth of its storesare poor, they will be closed.

B.it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, whichaccounted for its poor sales

C.it was closing up to one fourth of its storesbecause of poor sales.

D.to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores.

E.having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed.

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which ownsthe Record Town
and Saturday Matinee retail chains,announcedit was closing up to one fourth of its storesbecause of poor sales.
不明白，

首先announce 后面从句不用加that么？

第二，什么叫it was closing 正在关？

D确实不对，读起来就很奇怪，announce to be closing…但是具体有什么语法错误么？

kate198501

PREP2008上的分析：
A. 时态错误, TWEC announced that since sales……are poor, they will…, announced与are, will时态不一致；此外，they在语法上可以指代sales，但是在逻辑上应该指代its stores，存在歧义，不正确。
B．时态错误，同A。首先，在此which只有指代了前面整句逻辑才合理，但which在GMAT里面无法指代前面整句。其次即便which能指代前面整句，which account for:说明（解释）…的原因，此处将句意变为了“关门是poor sales的原因”，所以不正确。
C．Correct；如果宾语从句引导词that不补出，依然能使正常读者清晰断句，且announce后面常常不补出。
D．announce to do是错的，正确用法是announce sth.或者announce+从句；（on account of是否可用，仍待GMAT另外说明，从未在正确句子中出现过）。
E．announce having poor sales累赘(having是一个动名词gerund)，unidiomatic；will时态错误，同A；such that用法错误。

magicianz

announce 确实是少有的可以不用that的，同样的还有say

it was doing...也可以表示将要

jameshzd

同问啊！！！！