[問題]OG(10th)#24

[wingff]

24. The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.
(A)being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign
(B)being converted to cooperative ownership is whether they should be signing
(C)being converted to cooperative ownership is whether or not they sign
(D)conversion to cooperative ownership is if to sign
(E)conversion to cooperative ownership is whether to sign

In A, B, and C, the phrase being converted is awkward and redundant, since the sense of process indicated by being has already been conveyed by undergoing. A and D can be faulted for saying if rather than whether, since the sentence poses alternative possibilities, to sign or not to sign. Only E, the best choice, idiomatically completes whether with an infinitive, to sign, that functions as a noun equivalent of decision. Choice E also uses the noun conversion, which grammatically completes the phrase begun by undergoing.

請問og劃線部份是什麼意思@@?

to sign為什麼是noun equivalant?

[scujean]

The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing conversion to cooperative ownership is whether to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants. →建築經歷轉換(到合作的所有權)

1.用whether或是if有個簡單的判斷方法：
whether+S+V是名詞子句，有名詞的功能，可以當主詞，受詞，補語…
2.而if +S+V..是Adv子句

3.題目簡單的看→The first decision is whether to sign a no-buy pledge→the decision is +N
如果用if→The first decision is if to sign a no-buy pledge→the decision is +ADV
4.whether to sign..是，主詞decision.的補語，所以to sign是主詞decision的 noun equivalent←這裡我不太確定

[chvenson]

可以參考以下這一篇文 OG-84
裡面有對靜態動詞、動態動詞以及不定詞的討論
許多大大都分析的很不錯 參考參考

http://www.chemy.idv.tw/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=8324

[scujean]

謝謝分享..

[lorie0779]

網路上找到的說法

節錄
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以下出自 Practical English Usage, M. Swan, Oxford, 1995第二版

whether and if 用法

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4. 不定詞之前(infinitives):

在to-不定詞前要用whether。
Ex:
I am not sure whether to put this package here or there.
(Not .... if to put this package...)

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http://www.english.com.tw/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=124

照這個說法，答案就很清楚了！
參考看看嘍

[keane0727]

我認為OG講的noun equivalent 不是指 to sign而是whether to sign...整個名詞片語
the decision is whether to sign.....
(noun) +be動詞平衡 +(noun phrase)

[小隻]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E3DB1639F932A25754C0A964948260

TALKING "NO-BUYS"; PLEDGES ARE KEY TOOL IN CO-OP DEALS
引用 New York Time
By DIANE HENRY
Published: July 11, 1982

原來ETS題庫都擷取各大報章雜誌, 難怪老師要求多看文章!!
這篇文章第1句就是OG 10 th 24題的問題, 以下也就是解釋"no-buys"

[shmily0124]

根據朗文文法

第七章 不定詞
part 3 不定詞的各種形式
3.使用不定詞的注意事項
(6) 疑問詞+to 不定詞
how to... /who to.../ what to.../ where to.../ when to...
沒有why to...

plus 40
whether to 不定詞
有時可用whether(是否)來代替疑問詞，如下例：
I can't decide whether to accept his request.