OG23

[魚]

23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

here is my question :
In C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed. In choice E, was raised by ... increase is redundant.

我想請教 : 橘色字的部份 是說 : number 不可以被rise 嗎 ? 我一直不大敢確定ETS這段話說無明確N 可指代 是什麼意思. :-$

謝謝

[Behemoth]

這裡沒什麼

只是在說不知道明確發出動作者是誰 所以不好

也就是老莫說的被動少選的觀念

但不是不選喔~

至於你說的藍色字體部分 完全沒那個意思~

[魚]

收到

那 題外話

numbers of N 可以被rise 嗎 , 印象中的表達方式都是increas =>應該是慣用語, 不曉得raise 可不可以用

[Behemoth]

我的感覺上是可以

e錯的原因一是沒動作發起者,二是redundancy

應該不是說用raise所以錯....

[iamdior]

請問B錯在哪裡呢?
是因為沒有by來表示增加的幅度嗎?
還是因為不能用grew表示

謝謝~

[魚]

請問B錯在哪裡呢?
是因為沒有by來表示增加的幅度嗎?
還是因為不能用grew表示

謝謝~

the number of / numbers of 固定搭配

the numbers of 是錯滴

[dibert8]

接著魚的觀點, 刪除 (A) (B)(C), 剩下 (D) (E) 比較長短 => (D)

[pimi]

請問increased by more than thirty-five percent怎翻譯呢？？
為何一定要加by, 不能直接寫increased more than thirty-five percent????

[amazingslim]

請問increased by more than thirty-five percent怎翻譯呢？？
為何一定要加by, 不能直接寫increased more than thirty-five percent????

慣用法吧，只能照美國人的思維來答題(呼~對非母語的人還真是難)
很多題目increase by or reduce by是ㄧ起配套出現的，用來表達增加的幅度

[Huang Hsin-Yi]

請問increased by more than thirty-five percent怎翻譯呢？？
為何一定要加by, 不能直接寫increased more than thirty-five percent????

oxford:

increase (V)~sth by sth; ~from A to B
to become or to make sth greater in amount,number,value,etc
EX:They have increased the price by 50%

[sleeplessboy[origen]]

請問increased by more than thirty-five percent怎翻譯呢？？
為何一定要加by, 不能直接寫increased more than thirty-five percent????

慣用法吧，只能照美國人的思維來答題(呼~對非母語的人還真是難)
很多題目increase by or reduce by是ㄧ起配套出現的，用來表達增加的幅度

英文看久了就習慣了, 看多了, 如果沒有 increase by more than thirty-five percent 裡面的by 的話看起來會是怪怪的