关于状语从句的省略，有一点不怎么明白！求指导！

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The commission’s office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensify its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are paid for their work by a firm’s investment banking division.
A. to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are
B. to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or they are
C. to not only investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are
D. not only to investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are
E. not only to investigate whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when
这里E项的when应该似乎状语从句的省略吧？
prep08笔记中说，
从句的谓语必需是be（没要求主句谓语也必需是be！换句话说状从的省略可以看成是省略了一个be），且从句主语和谓语要
么同省，要么同留。
conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when paid for their work by a firm’s investment banking division.这句中or后面的when省略了they are这里conflicts result中并没有出现be，when从句中有they are是可以同时省略的，是这个意思吗？之前的比较句的省略，并列句的省略感觉都是be do have相同时省略动词或者助动词的情况，这里不需要主从句都有be是吧？

nobody910

我明白你的问题了。

首先，我们来看E选项，not only...but also不平行，绝对错误，杀掉E

其次，这是状语从句省略的条件：
（1）逻辑主语等于句子主语
（2）从句的谓语必需是be（没要求主句谓语也必须是be！，换句话说可以看

成是省略了一个be），且从句主语和谓语要么同省，要么同留
且两点都是必须的

最后，抛开题目本身，单纯讨论一下你提到的句子部分的状语从句省略的问

题
conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or

when paid for their work by a firm’s investment banking division
1·单看when paid，确实省略了被动词和主语，符合上述条件（2）
2·另外可以看出，when paid的逻辑主语应该是analysts，而when从句对应

的主句是conflicts result ，主语是conflicts，逻辑主语与主句主句主语

不一致，不符合上述条件（1）

所以，楼主提到的状语从句的省略是不符合规则的。

xiaoxiaoxxliu

明白了！谢谢了~~~