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[魚]

Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank’s profits on paper.

請問 為啥作者會想用 may be encouraging ? 是為了呼應Growing competitive pressures. 強調ongoing的狀態嗎?

謝謝

[Behemoth]

我想就是這樣子

您答對啦

[agk99]

我也是持和兩位相同的看法
這題給我很大的啟發，在此以前，我不敢寫這種句子的

[Behemoth]

說實在的
這種句子我大概沒寫過

[yuying]

74. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.
(A)clients; auditors may, for instance, allow
(B)clients, as an instance, to allow
(C)clients, like to allow
(D)clients, such as to be allowing
(E)clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

The first independent clause of the sentence describes a general situation; in A, the best choice, a second independent clause clearly and grammatically presents an example of this circumstance. Choice B uses as an instance ungrammatically: as an instance requires of to form such idiomatic constructions as "She cited x as an instance of y." Also, this construction cannot link infinitives such as to bend and to allow. The infinitive is again incorrect in C and D. C misuses like, a comparative preposition, to introduce an example. D requires by in place of to be. E, aside from being wordy and imprecise, uses the pronoun which to refer vaguely to the whole preceding clause rather than to a specific noun referent.

請問大家
D選項中, such as by allowing…這個用法怎麼解釋? Such as中 as不是介詞嗎? 怎麼by也可以…
好怪, 我查了Longman沒有這種例句, 都是such as + Noun
謝謝~~

[shine_allen]

我覺得應該是
such as by allowing a questionable loan to remain .....on paper
畫線部分事一個名詞片語囉,敘述一個方法,這樣解釋好不好

[winihsi]

such as 在裡面的作用和for instance一樣
such as by allowing blabla bla= for instance by allowing blabla bla....

[米琪]

A選項 : auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable

我想問的是
for instance插在 may 跟 allow之間，不會造成分裂句嗎？
助動詞跟動詞之間，不是不˙能插入副詞、副詞片語、副詞子句？

[larry.tw]

74. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A)clients; auditors may, for instance, allow

(B)clients, as an instance, to allow

(C)clients, like to allow

(D)clients, such as to be allowing

(E)clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of



The first independent clause of the sentence describes a general situation; in A, the best choice, a second independent clause clearly and grammatically presents an example of this circumstance. Choice B uses as an instance ungrammatically: as an instance requires of to form such idiomatic constructions as "She cited x as an instance of y." Also, this construction cannot link infinitives such as to bend and to allow. The infinitive is again incorrect in C and D. C misuses like, a comparative preposition, to introduce an example. D requires by in place of to be. E, aside from being wordy and imprecise, uses the pronoun which to refer vaguely to the whole preceding clause rather than to a specific noun referent.



請問大家

D選項中, such as by allowing…這個用法怎麼解釋? Such as中 as不是介詞嗎? 怎麼by也可以…

好怪, 我查了Longman沒有這種例句, 都是such as + Noun

謝謝~~

請問大家,我也不知道位啥要用by,可否請各位大大解釋一下?

[Philosophia]

其實你可以把句子獨立出來看

Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients, such as by allowing a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

這樣是不是清楚多了～

依 Collins Cobulild 的說法，by can be used with various nouns to say how something is done.

FYI 這題也在 Verbal Review #10

[larry.tw]

謝謝Philosophia大大~~~

那如果是去掉by也可以嗎??
such as allowing a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

[Philosophia]

那如果是去掉by也可以嗎??

這部份我持保留意見
個人認為，participle 是用以修飾之前的整個句子，但這裏的 by ...是用來說明其手段方法，two functions are different.