请教OG12 16题，关于逗号+that

dontwannalos

16. Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.
(A) that personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubled that of
(B) that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double
(C) of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it more than doubled
(D) of personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubling that of
(E) of personal spending in the July-September quarter, that it would more than double that of

the correct answer is B.

选项C和E都使用了，that, og的解释并没有说这么用语法不对，请高人指点如何理解这种结构？
我的疑问是 如果intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter整个作文插入语去掉，原句就变成了 Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, (修饰语), that it more than doubled rate in spending for quarter.
但是怎么想这句话都不对阿，that和it指代的东西理不清楚
如果把intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter), that it more than doubled rate in spending for quarter.连起来看，首先：逗号+that可以不修饰主语，而修饰状语吗？其次如果that指代的是前面整个句话的话，that的谓语在哪呢？显然double是it的谓语阿。
按og的解释it指spending的话，那that修饰的肯定是intensifying..这个句子了，求高人解惑！！

lilingfeng

逗号+that修饰逗号前面的内容，可以认为是错的。可以用which干嘛用that。 但是如果为

主语(总之就是that 要修饰的)，同位语之类，that 是可以接受的 当然具体到这导体由于逻

辑意思不对，所以不选   ，，that形式。
但这个结构：n，，that是可以的
还有一点，that是不可以指代前句的。具体参看老perp的解释，因为我比较 弱一些。。。想

说说不出来。。

我做这题，首先看到expectation，一般对于抽象名词，that引导从句比较有效（不绝对）。

再看a b，比较的那两个数值都表明了是rise（和名词growth）不会有什么误会，that of 就

有些多余
intensifying expectations   would什么可以接受  但a没有谓语了。而且double的词性很多

（除了连词）double即可

dontwannalos

C Th is construction is awkward, announcing the topic (personal spending) and then
elaborating in a relative clause that restates this topic as it.
E Like option C, this sentence is awkward and unnecessarily wordy, announcing the topic
and then using an additional clause to elaborate on it.

这是OG的解释，announcing the topic personal spending，表明that it more than**就是修饰前面的intensifying的吧？
现在再看这题，按OG的思路来不看前面的主语的话，C选项就变成了intensifying expectations of sth, that it doubled.  也许可以这样解释，本来应该是intensifying expectations of sth adj that doubled，因为这里的adj是in quarter，直接接that有歧义，所以就用逗号隔开，that单独引导一个句子继续修饰sth

谢谢楼上的回答，我也不理解为什么这里的that不是修饰sales rose。。。还请牛牛们解惑！

YINDAPENG

同问that：

D选项OG说没有技术性错误，只是没有B好。把D带入：

Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations of

personal spending in the July-September quarter more than doubling that of the 1.4

percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.

简化后，成为：retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent, intensifying expectations of

personal spending doubling that of the 1.4% growth rate.
这里的that指代的是什么？？

happydw

我觉得大家都一直在讨论修饰，指代的问题，可是句子的结构清晰，意思简洁是GMAC最看

重的，所以Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August是现象描述，intensifying以分

词的形式作前面现象伴随的结果，这样的句子结构是最清晰的，比后面的选项中的各种复杂的

指代要清晰很多，所以B应该是最好的