標題範例:Writing > Improving Sentences
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
We can either have dessert now, even though we just finished a huge meal, or waiting until later, when we might be hungrier.
(A) waiting
(B) we can wait
(C) wait
(D) can wait
(E) we could wait
謎底:C
【剖析】Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the lack of parallelism of the original by providing the verb “wait” to parallel the verb “have” in the correlative construction “either…or…”