og 75

winnie

og 75. If the proposed expenditures for gathering information abroad are reduced even further, international news reports have been and will continue to diminish in number and quality.

(A) have been and will continue to diminish

(B) have and will continue to diminish

(C) will continue to diminish, as they already did,

(D) will continue to diminish, as they have already,（E）

(E) will continue to diminish

Choices A and B fail because the logic of the sentence demands that the verb in the main clause be wholly in the future tense: if x happens, y will happen. To compound the problem, the auxiliary verbs have been in A and have in B cannot properly be completed by to diminish. C, D, and E supply the correct verb form, but C and D conclude with faulty as clauses that are awkward and unnecessary, because will continue describes an action begun in the past. E is the best choice.

og解释很清楚，但是有一句话我不很明白：To compound the problem, the auxiliary verbs have been in A and have in B cannot properly be completed by to diminish.

为什么have+to diminish不对？

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-11-26 8:43:18编辑过]

joe11

OG 是讲 have been 实现在时， will continue 是将来时，二者同接 to diminish 是不对的。

have been diminishing, will continue to diminish 这样才可。时态不可混用。

hougang

compound在这里是to add to, increase的意思，因为前面已经有一个句子结构错误了，后面又来了个have been + to diminish的错误，所以在这里会使用compound。

winnie

明白，谢谢！

winnie

再问：

To compound the problem, the auxiliary verbs have been in A and have in B cannot properly be completed by to diminish.

have and will continue to diminish：why the object of have is to diminish？but not the verb continue ？

colacat

have been是现在完成时。

整个句子其实是想表达，这个事情已经做了，而且还会继续做下去.

所以不能用一般现在时.

winnie

colacat没有明白我的意思，我是说：当两个助动词（have and will）并列时，第一个（have）后面省略的是什么？

og 说：the auxiliary verbs have been in A and have in B cannot properly be completed by to diminish.难道have been/have后面省略的是to diminish，不是continue？为什么？

colacat

应该是disminish

还原就是have disminsihed and will continue to disminish

个人理解。还望指教

winnie

up

薰衣紫草

同意colacat的说法, 我也认为OG就是这个意思.