急！全网唯一的题！！rather than 还是instead of

Rickyzy

Rain's 发表于 2013-10-12 15:28
不知卤煮战果如何？

跪了。。。很惨烈。。。只能再来了。

Indigolove

Professor Wendham denied his teaching assistant's request to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of to type them up using a computer.

A. to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of to type them up using
B. that would have allowed students to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of typed up
C. according to which students are allowed to turn in their papers in handwritten form instead of typing them up using
D. that would allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form rather than typing them up with the use of
E. to allow students to turn in their papers in handwritten form rather than type them up using

A: them, pronoun problem
B: typed up a computer, doesn't make sense
C: turn...........typing......doesn't parellel
D: the same as C
E: is perfect

So we go with E

Hliujing

在我理解就是 rather than 永远优于 instead of

kewpiedee

From Ron

there's also a very slight difference in meaning. i'll bet you 99.99% that gmac will never test this, but ...
... "X instead of Y" means that "Y" was some sort of default / assumed / preferred outcome, but that X has been substituted for it.
... "X rather than Y" indicates no such preference; it just means that there were options X and Y, and, this time, X won.

e.g.
He paid with a check rather than cash.
--> He had two options, and chose the check.

He paid with a check instead of cash.
--> He was supposed to pay in cash, but he paid with a check.

again, the likelihood that this will ever actually be tested is essentially zero, but, there it is.

南蛮也爱球

Indigolove 发表于 2013-10-21 14:47
Professor Wendham denied his teaching assistant's request to allow students to turn in t ...

楼主，这个解释很完美了！

AMBER513

看一下！               

AMBER513

Rickyzy 发表于 2013-10-10 12:44
对了。instead of 后面可以加to的吧？

不可以哦

AMBER513

1.  to turn in their papers in handwritten form rather than type them up，ratherthan连接的是一个平行的结构，所以them对应their papers,不会有pronoun ambiguity.
且RON说过，pronoun ambiguity不能作为排除因素
2.  The "of" in "instead of" is a preposition, and its object must be a noun.  Thus, "instead of" can only be used to compare single nouns, and the GMAT Sentence Correction seems to avoid even this use.  The GMAT also seems to avoid the "instead of" [gerund] structure.   The "than" in "rather than" is a subordinate clause, so the structure "rather than" is considerably more flexible in what can follow it.