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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: management andf strike |
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The management was forced to yield to the striking employees demanding that they should upgrade the archaic work safety rules and enhance the remuneration.
A. demanding that they should
B. demanding it to
C. and their demand to
D. who demanded that it should
E. who demanded it to |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I feel the answer shud be C .. please let meknow the correct answer |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:02 am Post subject: Re: management andf strike |
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| chidcguy wrote: | The management was forced to yield to the striking employees demanding that they should upgrade the archaic work safety rules and enhance the remuneration.
A. demanding that they should
B. demanding it to
C. and their demand to
D. who demanded that it should
E. who demanded it to |
i'd go with (d).
(a) and (b) are gone, because the present participle doesn't work.
(c) is gone because the wording makes it seem as though the management is yielding twice: once to the employees, and once to their demand. what's worse, the wording of (c) makes it seem as though the employees are demanding to upgrade the rules themselves, when in fact they are demanding that the management upgrade the rules.
(e) is improper idiomatic usage (you can't say 'demand x to do y').
that leaves (d).
i'm not a big fan of 'should' here - the correct form ought to be just 'demanded that it upgrade...' - but it's the best of the choices here.
i'm going to assume this is not an official problem...?
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