when的用法(摘自OG12 3的国外解释):
On the GMAT, “when” is usually used to describe one situation that happens at the same time as another; the word is only rarely used as a relative pronoun. “When” should only be used as a relative pronoun when it introduces a relative clause that actually describes the time in question. For example: The weeks when I was happy to watch TV all day are long gone.
An easy way to test whether “when” has correctly been used as a relative pronoun is to replace it with “in which.”
The above sentence would read: The weeks in which I was happy to watch TV all day are long gone. This construction makes sense. In the case of our GMAT question, however, replacing “when” with “in which” creates an illogical clause: It was not until almost 1900 in which scholars and critics seriously began studying…
最后一句话为什么illogical呢? |