240. What brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls.
(A) What brought
(B) The thing that brought
(C) That which brought
(D) Bringing（A）
(E) What has brought
Choice A is best. The verb tense is correct and the pronoun what refers most concisely and idiomatically to the noun increase. It may help to imagine a simplified version of the sentence and substitute the other answer choices for “The price increase was what brought...”Both B and C are unnecessarily wordy, and C is awkward and unidiomatic. （重复）Both D and E are faulty in tense; Bringing suggests an ongoing condition and is incompatible with an action that was completed shortly after the Second World War. （过去进行时与shortly after不一致）Similarly, has brought indicates action that continues up to the present; （完成时表示动作持续到现在）the past tense brought is needed to parallel was. （平行，动词的平行）
我的問題如下
1.為什麼選a,B跟c不可以嗎?og解釋只有說Both B and C are unnecessarily wordy, and C is awkward and unidiomatic,沒有說為什麼錯阿?
2.可以講一下,在什麼狀況下能夠用之這種句型表達??
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由 Ethan » 2004-11-11 10:14
(Reconstruct the sentence in another way)
A special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War. ( I omit “was what” but still keep the sentence complete.)
As for choice D, for example,
1. Being your student is not easy since I have to read lots of books before I attend your class. (When you say that, you probably complain about your teacher now. Normally, he will be your teacher for at least a period of time, say, form 2003/1/20~ present, of course, unless you want to kill him now.You won’t say: Being your student was not easy.)這也是OG說: Bringing suggests an ongoing condition and is incompatible with an action that was completed shortly after the Second World War.
2. What I want you to do is to stop smoking. (To emphasize your thinking or viewpoint. Sometimes we can omit “to” here.) I believe you have never heard: The thing that I want you to do is to stop smoking.
我看電影這麼久還沒聽過有那個老美說這麼奇怪的句子。
Since the automobile company was at the edge of collapse, government at that time made an effort to rescue them from going bankruptcy. The government gave them a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase to help the automobile company.
A special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War. ( I omit “was what” but still keep the sentence complete.)
As for choice D, for example,
1. Being your student is not easy since I have to read lots of books before I attend your class. (When you say that, you probably complain about your teacher now. Normally, he will be your teacher for at least a period of time, say, form 2003/1/20~ present, of course, unless you want to kill him now.You won’t say: Being your student was not easy.)這也是OG說: Bringing suggests an ongoing condition and is incompatible with an action that was completed shortly after the Second World War.
2. What I want you to do is to stop smoking. (To emphasize your thinking or viewpoint. Sometimes we can omit “to” here.) I believe you have never heard: The thing that I want you to do is to stop smoking.
我看電影這麼久還沒聽過有那個老美說這麼奇怪的句子。
Since the automobile company was at the edge of collapse, government at that time made an effort to rescue them from going bankruptcy. The government gave them a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase to help the automobile company.
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