The investigations of many psychologists and anthropologists support the generalization
of there being little that is a significant difference in the underlying mental processes manifested by people from different cultures.
(A) of there being little that is a significant difference
(B) of there being little that is significantly different
(C) of little that is significantly different
(D) that there is little that is significantly different
(E) that there is little of significant differences剩下DE,就选了个读的顺的。中枪了。
D的解释in this sentence, it functions as anoun. you can use "much" in the same way: there is much that isdifferent...
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more examples of the same type of thing:
there is much to be said about topicX.
there is little to be said about topicX.
there are things to be said about topic X.E的解释diomatic usage. In the phrase 'littleof X', the X has to be a singular quantity. If it's plural (like'differences'), then you have to use few.
There was very little food left overat the end of the party.
There were very fewcrab cakes left over at the end of the party.补充说明:significant 和 significantly 的区别:前者意思较广泛,有意义重大,重要等意思,而后者则意思明确,只表示程度很深的意思-- by 会员 zombiee (2012/5/23 21:56:00)
of consequence.
3.
而你如果输入significantly,出来的还是significant.
The difference is (statistically) significant.
A is significantly different from B.
当然,这里的significant倒不是说狭义的统计学量化,可以理解为substantially. 但总之,词性差异,不是意思差异。
这里E的错误主要就是agreement.