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qiufeng1990

According to some analysts, whatever (its merits, the proposal to tax) away all capital gains on short-term investment would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
b)its meris may be,the proposal of taxing

a or b????

Darwin was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; his tremendous originality lay in his proposal of natural selection as the means by which evolution worked. (another example to use proposal)

tongxun

A is the right answer, I think.
"proposal" should be completed by the word "to". Althogh "whatever its merits" seems to be incompleted, it is a good expression in english.省略。

qiufeng1990

You got the right answer. However, another example in my question shows the word "of" right after the word "proposal". Any explaination?

schwa995

Both of and to can follow PROPOSAL. But there are slightly different.

1. When proposal of is presented, there should be a noune followed and the proposal occured. Therefore, your additional example fits this pattern.

2, If proposal to is presented, the action proposed doesn't happen and there is no way to transform a verb into a real noun. The original question is the case for this pattern.

tongxun

谢谢schwa995！我的理论水平太低了，到是有具体题目还可以应付一下。

qiufeng1990

谢谢，明白了。