verbal 84，请教这题that的用法

thelilyonly

The computer company’s present troubles are a result of technological stagnation, marketing missteps, and managerial blunders so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.

















A.      so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.

















B.      so that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct

















C.      in that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them

















D.      that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct  

















E.      that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them

答案D

OG的解释：This sentence lists three causes of the company's troubles and asserts that strategies to correct the causes of the problems have failed. The clearest, most efficient way to explain this is to refer to the causes with the relative pronoun that, positioning it as an object of the verb failed to correct.

按照OG的解释，正确答案为that引导的定语从句，而that的先行词则是causes,也就是technological stagnation, marketing missteps, and managerial blunders。这样一来句意上说的通，不过我的疑问来了，that定从的先行词可以是A，BandC吗？

求指教！！！！！！

Grace19870912

stevenisgenius 发表于 2013-6-24 21:34
The computer company’s present troubles a-are a result of technological stagnation, marketing misst ...

同意！               

有很多可能的L

请问in that 那句为什么不可以呢 因为fail 所以造成了troubles

cunzhang2016

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cherubgillian

leena2006 发表于 2014-10-17 20:12
that 这里指的是troubles，做have failed to correct 的宾语，所以correct 后有it或者them的选项全杀，现在 ...

同意！  我也是这么选的D。            

Hendy

that再这里修饰的是blunders
NOTE: In A, B, and C, the phrases "so that" and "in that" would modify some kind of action, as in "He went to the store so that he could find Amy" or "It was a bad move in that it resulted in him getting dumped by Amy." We don't have an action we want to modify here (i.e., the only verb we have in the first half of the sentence is "are", and we're probably not modifying that).

leena2006

that 这里指的是troubles，做have failed to correct 的宾语，所以correct 后有it或者them的选项全杀，现在只剩下BD，看这句话整个成分，troubles are a result ..... that/so that，大家可以看一下，语义上是否有因果导致关系？没有。。。that是trouble的从句。选D。

醒醒Shine

这题真的涨知识了……

syjingjixue

这道题让人很怄火

木以晨夕

我觉得that修饰的应该是managerial blunders; correct blunders make sense. 但是correct technological stagnation和correct marketing missteps好像不搭配啊，所以应该只修饰最后一个吧。