[問題]考古題form26-23

[jasminelcj]

By shoeing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conscervatives have no vaild ideological grounds to be in sympath with Pretoria regime.

(A)to be in sympath with
(B)to sympathize with
(C)for sympathizing with
(D)that they should sympathize with
(E)that they should have sympathy for

ans:C
想請問為什麼B選項不行? 與C選項間有何差異
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[sandarac]

By shoeing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conscervatives have no vaild ideological grounds to be in sympath with Pretoria regime.

(A)to be in sympath with
(B)to sympathize with
(C)for sympathizing with
(D)that they should sympathize with
(E)that they should have sympathy for

ans:C
想請問為什麼B選項不行? 與C選項間有何差異
謝謝

應該是慣用吧...no ground for...沒根據,沒理由

[維尼]

By shoeing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conscervatives have no vaild ideological grounds to be in sympath with Pretoria regime.

(A)to be in sympath with
(B)to sympathize with
(C)for sympathizing with
(D)that they should sympathize with
(E)that they should have sympathy for

ans:C
想請問為什麼B選項不行? 與C選項間有何差異
謝謝

應該是慣用吧...no ground for...沒根據,沒理由

不過
我手上的朗文字典
可以查到

▶REASON◀
grounds[ plural]a good reason for doing, believing, or saying something

grounds for (doing) something
Mental cruelty can be grounds for divorce .There are strong grounds for believing his statement.

have grounds to do something
Did the police have reasonable grounds to arrest him?

是不是用 to V 也可以了呢?

[cocaine]

絕大多看到是 ground for xx ,
ground to v挺少看到的..
這題真難選押.

[meefoo]

這題也是大全987-190 有討論: http://www.formosamba.com/phpBB3/viewtopi ... rounds+for
結論就是:
be/have/give grounds + for + Ving/N
比 grounds + to 好