To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.
52.To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate,and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.
(A) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate,
(B) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home,
(C) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable,
(D) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home,
(E) Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker,
og里面对c的解释 ”Inversion of the expected word order in to be an expatriate was unfashionable is awkward. “这里这句话 大家怎么理解 扯unfashionable 干嘛?
【曼哈顿第12章】
1. Postpone Infinitive Subjects
Awkward: TO RESIST temptation is futile.
The subject of the sentence is the infinitive phrase to resist temptation. Although this sentence is grammatically correct, the GMAT usually avoids similar sentences on stylistic grounds.
Better: It is futile TO RESIST temptation.
It is now the grammatical subject. As a pronoun, it refers to the infinitive phrase to resist temptation.
Under other circumstances, it cannot normally refer to an infinitive.