CD22-verbal-11 之天山-7-14 请教NN我的分析对否

罗马青年

CD-V-11T-3-Q17.
    天山-7-14

Not one of the potential investors is expected to make an effort to buy First Interstate Bank until a merge agreement is signed that includes a provision for penalties if the deal were not to be concluded.

A.      is expected to make an offer to buy First Interstate Bank until a merge agreement is signed that includes a provision for penalties if the deal were

B.       is expected to make an offer for buying First Interstate Bank until they sign a merge agreement including a provision for penalties if the deal was

C.       is expected to make an offer to buy First Interstate Bank until a merge agreement be signed by them with a provision for penalties if the deal were

D.      are expected to make an offer for buying First Interstate Bank until it signs a merge agreement with a provision for penalties included if the deal was

E.       are expected to be making an offer to buy First Interstate Bank until they sign a merge agreement including a provision for penalties if the deal were

之前我选的是C，思考后觉得不对，分析如下，请NN指正。

B、D：虚拟语气中，was应该用 were，排除；

E：are expected to 中的 are 从原文逻辑意思看应该用单数，因此排除；

关于C的错误有2点（如还有其他错误，请指正）：

修饰歧义：with a provision for penalties 修饰的是them，但实际上其应该修饰的是a merge agreement；

代词指代错误：前面说的是one of the potential investors，后面用them，是否犯了代词指代不一致的错误？

请NN一定帮忙看看，这道题以前有人问过，但无人具体解答，非常感谢！

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-6-25 1:25:20编辑过]

jandjshi

one of the potential investors是单数, FIB也是单数, them没有指代. C的be signed也没道理, 没必要用subjunctive mood. 而且sign agreement的应该是seller, 不是 investor, 所以我支持A, 干脆省了sign agreement的subject.

stevegt

同意LS

until引导时间状语，后面跟一句话而且不用虚拟。所以 be signed错~

另外想说的是D项：are expected to be making an offer to buy， to be doing不好~ 

罗马青年

谢谢LS二位的解答；

觉得sign agreement的是本次“兼并交易”的双方：投资者与银行，直到双方签定协议投资者才肯进行兼并交易，所以选了C的signed by them...

vv_mind

但是A选项中的 agreement is signed that  中的 that  应该是修饰agreement  但它没有紧跟先行词，这样对吗？  

百草园Tracy

Not one 对应的谓语应该为单数，if the deal为虚拟语气，until后面为句子

A中that…为agreement的定语从句，为避免头重脚轻，所以放在is signed后面。

B 中they的指代对象不清，was时态不对，主句是一般现在时没有理由无缘无故用过去时，用虚拟语气是可以解释的

C. until be signed不对

D、E的are 不对，因为not one of…是单数