OG 171

jjjgggmmm

OG 171:
In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne
Boleyn.
(A) so as to marry
(B) and so could be married to
(C) to be married to
(D) so that he could marry
(E) in order that he would marry

answer D.  OG's explaination to A is: Awkward and imprecise, A does not specify who is to marry Anne.

my question:
but isn't the subject, "King Henry VIII", the one who was to marry Anne?

gemj

在语法上，so as to的逻辑主语未必是主句的主语。
所以需要补出。

jjjgggmmm

what will be the right sentence with "so as to"?

lixiaoyang

annul marriage so as to marry

jjjgggmmm

thank you both!

以下是引用lixiaoyang在2003-11-14 23:21:00的发言：
annul marriage so as to marry

sunshining

哪位nn能告诉我，为什么og171这道题目里C不对呢？

to不是可以表示目的吗？

谢谢

xealot

be married to, unnecessary passive, awkward and unidiomatic....

sunshining

难道没有语法错误，也不是不和习俗的用法，就因为不简洁，就不对吗？

那如果改成to marry就对了吗？

请nn解释一下吧？还是很不明白，为什么C就不对了？

shiningstar

c答案：be merried to 表示状态，get merried to 表示动作，c答案是表示动作所以be merried to 不对。我也不太理解og对c 答案关于缺少连接成份的解释，我觉得To get merried to Anne Boleyn ，King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled 这样会好些，但不知为啥，仅是感觉。不知谁能解释一下

In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled so as to marry Anne Boleyn.
这个题目A答案要是该成了In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to annulle his marriage to Queen Catherine so as to marry Anne Boleyn.这是不是就对了呢？快要考了，请指点一下。

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-9-4 7:03:13编辑过]

shiningstar

是不是因为这个句子前面出现了两个动词，sought to 还有annulled 而这两个动词的主语不是一个人，所以导致了so as to 的主语不能确定，一般情况下还是遵循so as to的主语前后一致的原则的，对不对啊，请求指正万分感谢·！！！！！