Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.
2. Although a surge in retail sales have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.
(A) have raised hopes that there is a recovery finally
(B) raised hopes for there being a recovery finally
(C) had raised hopes for a recovery finally being
(D) has raised hopes that a recovery is finally
(E) raised hopes for a recovery finally
考点:
Agreement; Rhetorical construction
考点解释: E For a recovery finally is awkward and—to the extent that it can be seen as grammatical—does not make sense.
关于E中的解释请教两个问题:
1. raised是过去时,而主句是现在时“say”,这样表达是否合理?因为E中说这是grammatical的。
2. for a recovery finally under way是awkward?那么awkward何在?
希望诸位能够帮我分析分析,谢谢!
楼主好,
问题1:这个E选项时态不准确哦。answer E changes the tense. Now, we could write this sentence using present perfect or we could write it using past - both are okay.
But they do mean two different things, obviously:
present perfect means it's still true that the hopes are raised and simple past means it was just in the past.
然后根据A选项的原始意思(不考虑其他的错误)我们还是应该选择现在完成时,代表着这个东西还是有效果的~但是这道题考点不在时态上哦!
问题2:这个结构确实不对,raise hope后面跟随的是hope的内容,E选项的错误"raised hopes for X <a recovery finally underway>"我们原来想要强调的其实是这个recovery is finally underway,就是“recovery来了”这个事,但是E选项的结构明显只强调了这个recovery。for+n是只强调这个名词,至于这个名词怎么了,并没有强调之,故,意思不准确
hope helps
所以这里finally作为副词,是可以修饰under way的.... "finally under way"
OG自己也承认,E语法上没错误(grammatical)
说E不make sense,我觉得Stacey解释的很好,如果我没理解错,她想说:
hopes for a recovery
hopes that a recovery is finally under way
以上两种表达都make sense,但是"hopes for a recovery finally under way"就不make sense