关于MHT论坛上的一个例句

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priya219 wrote:
Hi Ron,

On the basis of above explanations, please explain why the below one is wrong?

"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry"

This one is from the manhattan verbal guide.Following is the correct answer as per guide:
The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than did anyone else in the industry.
"contributed" is repeated here!

Thanks



Ron的回答：
hmm, yeah, both of those should be correct, since there's no ambiguity in the first one.
i'll submit that to be fixed. thanks.

as an example of a construction that is genuinely ambiguous, consider the following:
the tycoon supported Jones more than anyone else in the industry
this sentence genuinely has two meanings: (a) the tycoon supported jones more than the tycoon supported anyone else; (b) the tycoon supported jones more than anyone else supported jones.
the key to the ambiguity of this sentence (and also the key to why the preceding sentence is NOT ambiguous) is the fact that all three of "the tycoon", "jones", and "anyone else" are parallel -- they are all people -- and thus that both (a) and (b) above are properly parallel comparisons.

in the original example, the only two parallel constructions are "the tycoon" and "anyone else", so that sentence is unambiguous even without the helping verb.


ron说的我还是没有理解。 我感觉第一个句子还是错的 三个名词还是平行的
请教NN

kiwifoodtown

LZ,RON说的我理解，只是您的问题没看懂。

zjnyforever

i draw the trees better than you.
i draw the trees better than you did.
楼主看这俩 第一个说画树比画你好
第二个画的树比你画得好
但是上一题我感觉可以 因为平行的只有主语吧~ 楼主确定第一个错了吗

摇曳的叶子

"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry"

watch out the possessive！

enkyklios

kiwifoodtown 发表于 2013-9-4 13:06
LZ,RON说的我理解，只是您的问题没看懂。

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kiwifoodtown 发表于 2013-9-4 13:06
LZ,RON说的我理解，只是您的问题没看懂。

我表达的不是很清楚哈

"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry"
RON认为对  不懂为啥 RON说他们是并列的

kiwifoodtown

abc791201064 发表于 2013-9-5 00:23
我表达的不是很清楚哈

"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in ...

我觉得：RON举了个反例就是说明如果把the candidate's campaign 改成人Jones，那么这句话可能会产生混淆，很可能让读者把Jones和anyone else并列起来。但第一句不会，通常the candidate's campaign 和anyone else不同性质，不会让人把它们并列起来，所以，读者很自然就把这句看成是The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than did anyone else in the industry，所以这句话是没错的。

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kiwifoodtown 发表于 2013-9-5 09:35
我觉得：RON举了个反例就是说明如果把the candidate's campaign 改成人Jones，那么这句话可能会产生混淆， ...

我懂了 您的意思是 根据常识  比如 鸟不会说话  campaign不会像人一样巴拉巴拉。。。。。。  
我以为是to 这个结构啥的TAT

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zjnyforever 发表于 2013-9-4 15:15
i draw the trees better than you.
i draw the trees better than you did.
楼主看这俩 第一个说画树比画 ...

两个句子都是对的