请教OG11 35，多谢了！！

iamsan1984

Federal authorities involved in the investigation

 have found the local witnesses are difficult to

 locate, reticent, and are suspicious of strangers.

(A)the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are

(B)local witnesses to be difficult to locate, reticent, and are

(C)that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and

(D)local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are

(E)that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and  they are

(1)正确答案(C). 我查了一下webster词典,locate并没有形容词词性啊,但是og解释说locate, reticent和suspicious是三个平行的形容词,不明白了~~

(2)如果把(E)选项加上一个that(如下),使locate和reticent平行；而found that SVO和and that SVO构成平行句，(E)选项可以算对吗？

(E)that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and that they are

希望大家指点一下，多谢各位了

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mbamom

the parallelism is not between locate, reticent and suspicious, is between difficult to locate, reticent, and suspicious, "locate" is a verb

iamsan1984

第(1)个问题明白了，非常感谢mbamom :-0

第(2)个问题？还想较劲一下，可以这样改吗？

mbamom

既然是三者平行，为什么把前两者组成小并列再和第三个并列呢?另外三者都用系动词are, 在最后又补出不对，并列原则是要有都有，要没有都没有

iamsan1984

其实我是想用SV+that SVO, that SVO, and that SVO这个结构；貌似我们都没理解对方的意思，可能我没领悟你的意思吧

SilentKitty

你的意思是说句子变成 Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and （found） that they are suspicious of strangers

这样的话你那个that前后的句子结构不平行吧，前面是find XX are XX to XX，后面是find XX are XX of XX

Zeldaw

即使改了，E也不对，改后是

Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and that they are suspicious of strangers

（1）逗号不应该有，

（2）they可能会指代不清？

SilentKitty

额～～楼上的大哥 偶就想请问下那个逗号为什么不应该有勒

iamsan1984

明白了~~斑竹厉害呀，我忽略了这个问题^_^

(1)两个平行不用逗号连接：

   XDF有一道平行的题:The report on the gross national product--the nation's total production of goods

　and services--showed that second-quarter inflation was somewhat lower than previously estimated and that
    

　the savings rate was slightly higher.

(2)从语法上来说，they既可以指authorities，也可以指witnesses，即使句意明显指witnesses．

　p.s.：但是我不同意silentkitty的说法，平行（不像比较结构）不用严格对仗吧．上面那个例子两句的结构就不同呀．

fy_w

我感觉
 found that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and
            that they are
两个and有点拗口，因为local witnesses are = they are, it is wordy. 违反简洁原则。

在这个例子中，
The report on the gross national product--the nation's total production of goods

　and services--showed that second-quarter inflation was somewhat lower than previously estimated and that 　the savings rate was slightly higher.

注意，that 后面的从句的主语和谓语都不同。