求高人指点，白勇56题

Rogerdaring

The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year, had expected it to and its business will improve.
A. had expected it to and its businss will improve.
B. had expected and that its business would improve
C. expected it would and that it will improve its business
D. expected them to and its business would improve
E. expected and that it will have improved its business
请问句子结构是什么样的？白勇上说“比预期”表达上有习惯性省略，不能加宾语，那analysts had expected it to这个it是指代什么？

Rogerdaring

没人能指导一下吗？

pipilovelail

The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year

it指代前面的its profit，than后面的比较对象补全应该是analysts had expected it（its profit）to decline

Bourne_NY

个人理解答案是B吧。

The company announced 是主句主谓语，宾语是两个并列的宾语从句，that ... and that ... .

而且B项里每个宾语从句的时态都是过去，与主句时态相符。

至于第一个从句里的had expected，后面好像不用跟宾语了，新闻里经常听到播音员这么说。

ulyssesangel

选E  对么

Rogerdaring

The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year

it指代前面的its profit，than后面的比较对象补全应该是analysts had expected it（its profit）to decline

-- by 会员 pipilovelail (2009/11/27 1:13:59)

那这个it算是宾语吗？答案是B，那为什么后面的expect就不能加it呢？

cynthia627

其实我觉得这个句子你可以这样理解，会不会简单一点。its profits declined much less in the second quarter than （the decline that）analysts had expected。你把句子里面比较成分不全。你看看再加上it to还合适么？答案就显而易见了~

formyf

我觉得是因为it在逻辑上是指its profits 但是，前面的its 指代的是公司的，然后会有那种指代歧义~

myfield

一句话当中，代词指代的内容应当一致，由于未划线部分its指代company's所以后面的it不是指代company的都错，排除，然后就是时态，主句一般过去时，所以出现will没有什么道理，应该用would，然后就是平行结构了，that加上以后变成两句从句并列，更加平行，结构更清晰

universer

楼主改一改句子吧。题目发的有问题
我觉得 analysts  had expect  这个是副词成分，是程度副词和程度副词比
若为analysts  had expect it，则为主谓和主谓比，逻辑不合理。故错

announced that 。。。 and that 平行对称