다음 밑줄 친 문장이 문법상 맞으면(A)를 고르고, 밑줄 친 문장이 틀린경우, 선택지(B)~(E)중에 가장 좋은 대안을 고르시오.
Early American writers cannot be credited with having achieved any particular originality in form, and even the prose of Washington Irving’s stories was accepted largely because they were modeled upon the sentences of Addison and Goldsmith.
(A)they were modeled upon the sentences of
(B)the sentences were modeled upon
(C)the sentences were modeled upon those of
(D)of his having modeled them upon the sentences of
(E)their being modeled upon the sentences of
정답 및 해설
정답 (C) 해설: 밑줄친원문의대명사 they는 stories를가리킨다. Washington Irving의stories와Addison과Goldsmith의sentences를비교하는것은비논리적이다. Washington Irving의stories는문맥상그의산문이며즉, 그의산문은Addison과Goldsmith의문장을모델로한것이분명하므로비교대상은Washington Irving의sentences와Addison과Goldsmith의sentences를비교해야한다. 즉, 비교대상은논리적으로일치시켜야한다.
영어해설: Theoriginal sentence contains one error: the use of they is incorrect. Since they is plural, it can refer only to stories, but the logical structure of the sentence makes it clear that it was Irving’s sentences, which is to say his prose, that were modeled on the sentences of Addison and Goldsmith.
[해석] 초기미국작가들은(글의) 양식면에서특별한독창성을달성했다고인정받지못했으며, Washington Irving의이야기의산문조차도주로Addison과Goldsmith의문장을모델로했기때문에(독창성이없는것으로) 인정되었다.
비교구문에서 명사를 대신하는 대명사 that과 those를 생략하지 마라.
Her qualifications are better than any other candidate. (x) Her qualifications are better than those of any other candidate. (o) 그녀의자격은어떤다른후보자의그것[자격]보다낫다. The audience is much larger than last year’s concert. (x) The audience is much larger than that at last year’s concert. (o) 관객은작년콘서트의관객보다훨씬크다.