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hru

    

3.                 That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said that it is their fault: Alvin Toffler, one of the most prominent students of the future, did not even mention microcomputers in Future Shock, published in 1970.

(A) That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said that it is their fault

(B) That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said to be at fault

(C)    It can hardly be said that it is the fault of educators who have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology

(D) It can hardly be said that educators are at fault for not anticipating the impact of microcomputer technology

(E) The fact that educators are at fault for not anticipating the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said

    

不明白B为什么不对? 另外that clause/ what clause 做主语时, 有没有什么特别要注意的地方. 比如说，that clause / what clause + be 后只能接名词??? very confused about the problem. thanks a lot!

weiyu

注意原句想表达的意思


their fault（their指代educators') 这个逻辑意思是合理的，应当保留


（B)That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said to be at fault．是说这件事不是错误的，没有表达出不是教育家的错误

LES

以下是引用hru在2004-4-2 19:40:00的发言：
(B) That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said to be at fault

不明白B为什么不对? 另外that clause/ what clause 做主语时, 有没有什么特别要注意的地方. 比如说，that clause / what clause + be 后只能接名词??? very confused about the problem. thanks a lot!

B选项是说That引导的整个主语从句at fault而不是educators at fault，逻辑搭配错误。

hru

    at fault : deserving of blame; guilty;     so the subject should be human, not any thing.


Thanks.

hru

btw, if B is modified into:

(B) That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said to be    a fault;

is the sentence is grammatically correct?

weiyu

我觉得是对的？？？NN呢？？？

snow_mountain

以下是引用hru在2004-4-2 20:17:00的发言：
btw, if B is modified into:

(B) That educators have not anticipated the impact of microcomputer technology can hardly be said to be    a fault;

is the sentence is grammatically correct?

i think grammatically speaking, the sentence is correct.     yet it is not very idiomatic and balanced, since the subject is so long.

weiyu

be said to be at fault觉得不太好