OG11 86 关于first的位置，求牛牛指点

swimswan

86. Although early soap operas were first aired on evening
radio in the 1920's, they had moved to the daytime hours
of the 1930's when the evening schedule became crowded with comedians and variety shows.
          （A）were first aired on evening radio in the 1920's, they had moved to the daytime hours of the 1930's

(B)were first aired on evening radio in the 1920's, they were moved to the daytime hours in the 1930's



(C)were aired first on evening radio in the 1920's,



moving to the daytime hours in the 1930's



(D)were aired first in the evening on 1920's radio,



they moved to the daytime hours of the



1930's



(E)aired on evening radio first in the 1920^'s, they were moved to the 1930's in the daytime hours



Verb form + Parallelism



The two clauses about soap operas should be parallel. The first verb were ... aired should be balanced by another passive voice verb in the simple past tense, were moved. The past perfect had moved indicates action completed before the action in the simple past were aired, suggesting that the 1930's were finished sometime during the 1920's. The prepositional phrase
in the 1920's should be balanced by in the 1930^'s



OG里面没有提到，我想问一下C、D中的were aired first 和A、B中的were first aired有没有区别，即副词first究竟应该放在哪里？

Gail小M

were first aired is better than were aired first.
first should modify the verb "air" ---> 第一次播出是在evening radio
而" were aired first on evening radio" 略有第一次在evening radio播出的歧义
但我觉得问题也不是特别大吧~

swimswan

哦，谢谢哦
应该是这样的