本期重点: 平行结构
平行结构错误主要指在并列连接词and前后语法结构不对等、不平行。其它并列连词还有but, as well as, or, or else, both … and, neither … nor, either … or, not only … but (also)等可连接两个对等的词和对等的结构。
考点例析
1:Computeranalyzed marketing reports can help deciding
which products to emphasize now,which to develop for
the future, and which to be dropped.? ____________
解析:本句中三个平行成份which products to emphasize now, which to develop和which to be dropped结构模式应该一致,均采用不定式主动语态,因而to be dropped应改为to drop。(注:在四六级考试中,短文改错只能修改、删除或添加一个单词,不能同时改动两个。本例题旨在反映平行结构的语法性质。)
例2:At the heart of the NEA survey is the belief that our
democratic System depends on leaders who can think
critically, analyze texts and writing clearly. ___________
解析:can后面有三个并列的谓语动词,因此writing应改成与think, analyze并列的动词原形write。
例3:Atrophy is a decrease in size of a cell, organ, tissues, or other part of the body. _______
解析;:并列连词or连接四项名词结构,其中cell 和organ皆为单数形式,故tissues应改为单数tissue。