og 74 关于B选项to allow动作发出者指代不明

LRzealot

*74. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A)  clients; auditors may, for instance, allow

(B)  clients, as an instance, to allow

(C)  clients, like to allow

(D)  clients, such as to be allowing

(E)   clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

The first independent clause of the sentence describes a general situation; in A, the best choice, a second independent clause clearly and grammatically presents an example of this circum­stance. Choice B uses as an instance ungrammatically: as an instance requires of to form such idiomatic constructions as "She cited x as an instance of y." Also, this construction cannot link infinitives such as to bend and to allow. The infinitive is again incorrect in C and D. C misuses like, a comparative preposition, to introduce an example. D requires by in place of to be. E, aside from being wordy and imprecise, uses the pronoun which to refer vaguely to the whole preceding clause rather than to a specific noun referent.

这样分析有漏洞吗? 请各位NN帮忙

B, 把句子简化就是:

Pressures encourages auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients to allow a questionable loan…to remain…

骨头是

A encourage B to do sth in favor of C to do sth

那么 to allow 就指代不明了: to allow 到底是pressure发出的, 还是auidtors呢? 所以B选项错了.

由如

Laden asked Bush to kill Sadam to gain fame.

到底是Laden gain fame, 还是Bush gain fame?  不明了

不知道是不是可以用这样的办法排除B选项? 这样分析有漏洞吗? 请各位NN帮忙

我觉得OG说是as an instance错是障眼法

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vezdeu

仔细看看，clients后面是分号，后面的分句主语显然是auditors

LRzealot

我指的是排除B选项的办法, 不知道合不合理. B中没有分号

vezdeu

对不起，一开始没有明白你的意思

如果按照你的思路：b去掉插入成分变成

Pressures encourages auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients to allow a questionable loan…to remain…>>

你说得对，to allow发出者不明确是一定的了，而且这句话awkward.

但是如果从另外一个角度看：

as an instance 在这里本身用法就有问题，它不能这么使用为插入语，而应该是for example, as instance之类的。如果能从这里否定b会更快一些。