例3：
Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.
(A) water as a
(B) water as to a
(C) water; just as it would to a
(D) water, as it would to the
(E) water; just as to the
分析：Galileo 句子主语，was convinced谓语动词，后面跟一个that引导的宾语从句，宾语从句中的主语就是natural phenomena,as manifestations…… 介词短语充当插入语，宾语从句的谓语动词是would appear，宾语后面跟一个 the same to someone，这时候发现有问题，因为在学习平行并列的时候了解到
the same to 是平行并列中的一个内容，既然the same to 后面跟的是someone on the deck of a ship介词短语做定语修饰的是someone ，moving smoothly是个doing结构作定语修饰就近名词 ship，and uniformly 与smoothly并列修饰moving，through the water介词短语，接着出现划线句子有as,如果as要比较，如果说比较的对象是句子的主语，比如宾语从句中的主语是natural phenomena，如果比较的是主句的主语就应该是Galileo 。但是因为宾语从句中没有断开，所以比较不了主语，而且 the same to someone 也是宾语从句中的内容，所以as比较的应该是宾语从句中的主语或者说是宾语从句当中的某一个句子成分，如果比较的是宾语从句中的主语natural phenomena，someone不能和自然现象对比，所以排除和主语的对比，除此之外能够对比的是a person ，既然是介词短语的并列，介词习惯补出，如果不补出就会理解成和主语比较，所以最好补上to,
(A)【错误】as没有补出to，
(B)补充了to,“to a person standing on land”明确地与“to someone on the deck”平行，将这个比较句式省略的部分补全为：natural phenomena would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as they (natural phenomena) appear to a person standing on land.正确。
【大意】 伽利略确信，自然现象，根据物理规律，对于匀速运动的船甲板上的人和对于站在岸上的人来说，看起来是一样的。
(C)“;”用来连接语法功能一致的结构。“;”如果用做连接两个主谓结构，则两个主谓结构语法结构上应当平行，“just as +S(主语)+V(谓语)”本质上是“just as”引导的比较从句，而“;”之前出现的句子是主句，主、从句之间语法功能不一致。排除C,
(D)加了一个完整的句子，但是句中没有任何连词，在非平行并列当中，不应该是谓语动词的个数-1=连词的个数，因此有谓语没有连词，排除D
(E)“;”用来连接语法功能一致的结构，而本选项“;”两边不存在语法功能一致的结构。分号后面应该跟一个完整的句子，排除E.
正确句子：
Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as to a person standing on land.
Galileo 是句子主语，was convinced是谓语， that 后边是宾语从句，宾语从句中的主语就是natural phenomena,as manifestations…… 介词短语充当插入语，宾语从句的谓语动词是would appear，the same to someone ……as to a person 是比较对象，moving smoothly and uniformly是介词短语平行并列。
例4：
Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.
窗体顶端
· A of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that 分析A选项
· B of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because 分析B选项
· C of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because 分析C选项
· D their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because 分析D选项
· E their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that
分析：句子主语是Retailers，谓语动词是reported ，moderate gains in their November sales是宾语，跟着一个介词短语，所以这就是句子的主句。后面出现了as就要考虑是否在考察a的比较。主语Retailer,谓语report, as much because … as because并列引导原因状语。过去完成时在这里使用是可以的，是在reported的过去，完成的事实。as much because …as because …，as …as 要求平行并列。so bad可以单独使用做形容词，而as bad则后面必须再加比较成分，并不完整as bad as结构。所以句子结构是Retailers reported …, as much because … as because ….. .
选项分析
· (A) as much…as…结构不平行;because of后面结构复杂，应该改为because引导句子。排除。
· (B) as much… as…结构不平行;as much… as bad as…搭配错误-- so bad是可以自己单独使用的，但是as bad的话后面必须再跟一个as;because of错误同A。排除。
· (C) as much… as…结构不平行;as much… as bad as…错误同B;because of错误同A。排除。
· (D) Correct;过去完成时以后面的were getting对照，说明a year earilier的sales发生在过去的过去;正确。
· (E) 结构不平行, as much as 和so bad,此处搭配混乱;were没有用过去完成时更贴切，因为从句一来看，第一个because是发生在去年，在第二个because之前，并且已经完成，对现在产生影响，第二个原因原文给出过去式。排除。
正确句子：
Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.
题干意思是：零售商报告其在11月销售温和上扬，一方面因为他们去年同期销售很糟糕，另一方面因为购物者都开始购买的节日礼物。
