[問題]OG66

[pcl12]

66. The Federal Reserve Board's reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is both an acknowledgment of past economic trends and an effort to influence their future direction.
(A)reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is both an acknowledgment of past economic trends and an effort
(B)reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is an acknowledgment both of past economic trends as well as an effort
(C)reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions both acknowledge past economic trends and attempt
(D)reducing interest rates on loans to financial institutions is an acknowledgment both of past economic trends and an effort
(E)reducing interest rates on loans to financial institutions both acknowledge past economic trends as well as attempt

Choice A is best. In B, both must come before acknowledgment if it is to link acknowledgment and effort; as misplaced here, it creates the unfulfilled expectation that the reduction of interest rates will be an acknowledgment of two different things. Moreover, both... as well as ... is redundant: the correct idiom is both x and y. In C, the plural verbs acknowledge and attempt do not agree with their singular subject, reduction; also, it is imprecise to characterize a reduction as performing actions such as acknowledging or attempting. In both D and E, the use of the participle reducing rather than the noun reduction is awkward. Like B, D misplaces both, while E repeats both the redundancy of B and the agreement error of C.

請問E選項和B一樣redundancy?看不出B的redundancy...
而E應該沒有S-V不一致吧?
:-S

[Jessy]

看不出B的redundancy...

as well as

[Jessy]

E應該沒有S-V不一致吧?

沒有

C的主詞 reduction 單數
動詞acknowledge and attemp 不一致

[agk99]

as well as 與both就redundency
至於CE講的不一至
主要是指acknoledgement 與effect要加s 或an沒加所致

[Jessy]

報告大哥
選項E的acknowledge 跟 attempt不是動詞嗎??
怎會有要不要加s 或是 an 的問題啊
請用力指點一下

[odinhsu]

我想ETS應該是認為reducing是主詞....
這題考的不就是要用reducing還是reduction...

[cychen]

E 的主詞是 reducing --> 單數 動詞應該要加S~ 應該是這各意思吧 :d

[pcl12]

那是當作動名詞用囉...
上次看解釋的時候一直覺得是用來形容rates,
所以覺得沒有不一致.....
那麼,本題是在說減少利率的這件事,而不是減少利率的舉動...對吧?
而reducing 這舉動是不會acknowledge的..

[hungji]

(有誤請指正)
1 快速觀察五答案
2 答案差異(1)reduction of interest rates/reducing interest rates (2)both..and../both..as well as.. (3)acknowledgement(n.)/acknowledge(v.)
3 回原題抓主詞動詞...AB...S=reduction...V=is; CDE...S=rates...V=acknowledge
4 刪主詞動詞不一致者...刪 C D
5 刪 both..as well as...刪B E
6 強迫中獎 A, 時間不多, 繼續下一題

[CUGGYER]

請問E的主詞應該是 reducing interest "rates" 這樣就沒有主動詞不一致的問題 雖然E主要是錯在 as well as 造成的redundancy 但請問他除了這個之外 錯的地方是什麼呢

[freshmanduke]

除了both 和as well as 並不能共存外
還有一個錯誤
reducing interest rates並不能acknowledge......
他不是人並不能主動的去了解事情
這是句意 的考法 文法上得卻沒錯
但語意上卻不可以
ps effort 也變成 attemp改變原意

[lapoom]

E的文法有錯的
主詞不是"rates" 而是 " ...Board's reducing interest rates" 是單數
所以S-V不一致

[ivygirl]

為什麼這題沒有雙重所有格的問題？
The Federal Reserve Board's reduction of interest rates
難道這樣不算雙重所有格？
如果不是的話，那到底雙重所有格要怎樣看呢？

[dibert8]

所有格後面的名詞指狀態, Ving不能表狀態, 刪除 (D) (E); (C) acknowledge 對應單數主詞, 錯了; 剩下(A) (B)比較長短 => (A)