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zhangludiane

同问喔。谁能解答下喔，IT为什么不能指代WAY，虽然从逻辑意思上不通~

qiaohengsdu

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77. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is
to process them quickly into juice concentrate before
they rot when warmer weather returns.

(E) to have it quickly processed into juice
concentrate before warmer weather returns and
rots the fruit
我的问题是：如果A选项中，没有"they"的错误，即A变为“to process it quickly into juice concentrate
before they rot when warmer weather returns”可以吗？


应该不可以，因为这是一个用to do不定式做表语的句子 the only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process it ...before they...在they的前面只有growers是复数名词，这样表达会让人误解为在growers rot,而造成指代不清

而答案选用的fruit就是避免了指代不清的问题

-- by 会员 candicelu (2009/11/4 22:35:09)

正解！

云游

zhangludiane 发表于 2011-3-10 15:28
同问喔。谁能解答下喔，IT为什么不能指代WAY，虽然从逻辑意思上不通~

代词指代不能算绝对错误： so here's the simplest way of making the decision:

1) if you see an AMBIGUOUS PRONOUN that is SPLIT AGAINST A SPECIFIC NOUN, then eliminate the ambiguous pronoun and keep the specific noun.
for an example, see problem 68 in the blue OG 2nd edition verbal supplement, in which "them" is split against "these companies". in that type of situation, the specific noun is better than the ambiguous pronoun, so go ahead and narrow down to the choices that contain the specific noun.

HOWEVER,
2) if you see an ambiguous pronoun that is NOT split against a specific noun, then DON'T eliminate!
for an example, see problem 21 in the blue OG 2nd ed verbal supplement (in which the correct answer contains a technically ambiguous pronoun).
or see the problem in this thread!

兰心寒

zhangludiane 发表于 2011-3-10 15:28
同问喔。谁能解答下喔，IT为什么不能指代WAY，虽然从逻辑意思上不通~

the only way to do x is to do y,这里面不管y有多少代词，都应该是 to do y的整体来指way吧

cdbgin009

Christianyang 发表于 2010-8-15 12:03
我想问的是如果根据it的优先指代的话岂不是应该指way？虽说从逻辑意思上不是，有谁能解释一下。 ...

就近+结构约束，it只能指代citrus

to salvage citrus....to have it