OG 12 diagnostic test 诊断测试 39题求助- more than likely

nobody910

39. According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a directrenderingofspeech, but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began



答案选B，我选了A。我知道A为什么错（因为more后面必须要加than），但是不懂为什么B是对的呢？ 不管likely是做adj还是adv，我觉得B都缺了Be动词啊！查了之前一些帖子，好像都没涉及到这点。求牛牛们解答！多谢！

mslancaster

因为这里用的并不是be likely to do 这个idiom

nobody910

那是？ 求指教

likely作为一个adj或者adv不都该需要动词才能构成完整的结构么

因为这里用的并不是be likely to do 这个idiom

-- by 会员 mslancaster (2012/3/25 1:37:49)

mslancaster

那是？ 求指教

likely作为一个adj或者adv不都该需要动词才能构成完整的结构么

因为这里用的并不是be likely to do 这个idiom

-- by 会员 mslancaster (2012/3/25 1:37:49)

-- by 会员 nobody910 (2012/3/25 1:56:27)

就是more than likely

likely没有more也能单独出现的情况，在这种情况下前面加了个more than

和not only, but....而后面没有also是一样的情况