5. As its sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, the company has become increasingly willing to compete for the mass market sales they would in the past have conceded to rivals. (A) they would in the past have conceded to rivals (B) they would have conceded previously to their rivals (C) that in the past would have been conceded previously to rivals (D) it previously would have conceded to rivals in the past (E) it would in the past have conceded to rivals Agreement + Rhetorical construction When a number of words intervene between a pronoun and its referent, an error such as the one in this sentence is easy to make. The subject of the main clause is the singular noun company, which must be followed by the singular pronoun it. A Plural pronoun they does not agree with singular the company B Plural pronouns they and their do not agree with the company C Previously repeats the idea of in the past, the passive voice construction is weak and ambiguous D Use of both previously and in the past is redundant E Correct. In this concise sentence, the singular pronoun it agrees with the singular referent the company. OG11-05也是省略了定语从句的that引导词. 似乎省略that多半都是在OG11上,那么可不可以设想是从10版到11版的这段时间里面,书面语法已经发展到省略做宾语的that不是错误的地步了? 那么在以后做题的时候,不把这个条件做为排除错误选项的原则应该就好了吧? |