OG17 724 关于平行问题

yybinary

At the end of 2001, motion picture industry representatives said that there were about a million copies of Hollywood movies available online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available.

A) online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available
B) online and expect the increase of piracy with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections
C) online, and they expect more piracy to increase with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections
D) online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available
E) online, and that they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available

a选项的错og上解释是－the second clause is awkward and unclear; there is no clear subject for expected.

我想确认这里no clear subject是不是说expected的主语存在争议，可能是说
1）motion picture industry representatives，这样expected就和said平行，都是reps发出的动作；
2）hollywood movies，这样there be结构和expected分句都是reps said that后面的主要内容。

谢谢各位！

daydayYY

Hi
1)E選項是said that ..., and that兩個名詞子句平衡比較好。
2)A選項要平衡，expected動詞只會平衡到were，這樣就會變成there做expected主語，但是there是虛字,所以無法做expected動作。所以OG指出:there is no clear subject for expected.