To attract the most talented workers, some companies are offering a wider range of benefits, letting employees pick those most important to them.
benefits, letting employees pick those most important to them
benefits, letting employees pick the most important of them to themselves
benefits and letting employees pick the most important to themselves
benefits and let employees pick the most important to them
benefits and let employees pick those that are most important to themselves
offering和letting是因果关系而不是并列的动作,公司只是offer,而offer这个动作导致了后面的动作letting。
自己逻辑有问题啊,做题的时候想来想去觉得是并列才选了C
A选项,those most important,those指代benefits,而most important修饰those,因而在此可以作为pick的宾语。B选项,them和themselves属于同一个代词,在一个句子中同一个代词须指代相同的对象,而此句them指代benefits,themselves指代employees,错误。C选项,整个句子在逻辑意义上是offering和letting存在因果关系,但个人认为这不是好的做题的着手点。C选项中pick the most important,the most important是形容词,不能作为pick的宾语,从此着手会更容易解题。而使用them或themselves指代employees,个人认为都是可以的。
agree。c 中的 pick those most important 和 pick the most important ones 应该都是可以修补的方法。问下:a 中的them为什么就一定指代的是employees?而不是其他的?这里一点歧义的可能性都没有吗?
在逻辑上,them应该指代benefits,themselves应指代employees,语法上来说他们应该指代同一个东西,但逻辑上来说他们不可能指代同一个东西(就算让them指代employees,逻辑上也不对),所以错了,是这个意思。(其实我也很疑惑them到底应该指代什么,有没有就近指代原则?搜了一下没查到)
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C. 应该是pick those most important 或pick the most important ones
错选了C,要记住and是连接两个无关的句子用的
简单题,错
考察:
前:
ing修饰的因果关系,而非平行关系。错选c--在ac纠结的时候,一定要去认真思考是否因果关系,并列关系,offer和let有没有关系,是不是纯并列的动作,可以假设他们有因果关系去思考看成立不。
offering和letting是因果关系而不是并列的动作,公司只是offer,而offer这个动作导致了后面的动作letting。因为offer了,所以let them去选择,themselves也赘余,them即可
显然地,“某些公司正在提供更大范围的收益”这个事件和“让员工们可以选择对它们最重要的东西”具有明显的因果关系,即,正是因为公司提供了更大范围的收益选择,才让员工们有的选择。
后:
另一个角度,语意,pick those most important to them和“pick the most important to themselves”,,逻辑上不能是让员工选最重要的一个,而是选最重要的一些benifit--》选项这里有区别,那就要认真考虑这个区别来排除
怎么想都觉得是并列。。。提供更多benefits+允许员工自由选择。如果是导致的,不就成了“让员工选择”本身就是benefits的一部分了吗。。
学会分清两个动作到底是并列还是一个导致另一个,显然是因为wide了range才导致letting 员工能选择最重要的
一个思路:想不清楚是因果还是并列的时候,想时间的先后,因在时间上一定先于果,因此用and的必须是并列而不是因果
逻辑!
them / themselves 属于同一代词,一个句子里,同一代词 指代 相同的对象。
CDE: 并列连词and将offer和let塑造成了并列关系。但在逻辑上,显然地,“某些公司正在提供更大范围的收益”这个事件和“让员工们可以选择对它们最重要的东西”具有明显的因果关系,即,正是因为公司提供了更大范围的收益选择,才让员工们有的选择。因此,offer和let之间应该具有因果关系。
主语和宾语是同一个人时,使用反身代词,主语:employees,谓语:pick 宾语: those most important to them(对他们来说最重要的benefits,to them起修饰作用),因此不需要使用反身代词,排除b/c/e—>d选项 are offering and let不平行—>选择a
and连接两个无关的句子,排除CDE
B. them 和 themselves 指代混乱
逻辑关系,是因果,不是并列
letting vs. and let , and平行, those most important vs. the most important, them vs. themselves
反身代词的用法!
逻辑关系,是因果,不是并列
Since important refers to benefits, the following meaning is conveyed:
HOW are the benefits IMPORTANT?
They are important TO THEMSELVES.
This meaning is nonsensical: benefits cannot consider themselves important.
Eliminate B, C and E.
"Let" is a verb, and I guess it could be parallel to "are offering" -- but if that's the case, why are they in different tenses? That can't be right.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/to-attract-the-most-talented-workers-some-companies-are-offering-a-wi-241811.html
it's a little bit confusing to have "them" refer to "benefits", while "themselves" refers back to "employees"
1. there's no reason why a pronoun can't refer back to an object.
2. "letting employees pick (the benefits) most important to them" is giving us more information about what happens when "companies are offering a wider range of benefits."So it makes sense for "letting" to be a modifier, not a verb
B选项:在语法上,同一个代词的指代对象应相同。但在本选项中,them应指代benefits,而themselves应指代employees。
those 只能指代benefits,一开始认为pick所有的benefits感觉不对,后才发现后面接了简化的宾语从句缩小benefits的范围。