Sentence Correction

SEC regulations require that a public company disclose to their potential investors any legal, technological, or financial complications hat would endanger their investments.

a)a public company disclose to their
b)a public company discloses to its
c)a public company disclose to its
d)public companies disclose to its
e)a public companies have disclosed to their

oa Cplz explain

Concept tested subject verb agreement require that ....a company X disclose Y

a)a public company disclose to their incorrect
b)a public company discloses to its incorrect
c)a public company disclose to its correct
d)public companies disclose to its incorrect
e)a public companies have disclosed to their incorrect

I this questio you need to check the Pronoun reference agreement.

SEC regulations require that a public company disclose to their potential investors any legal, technological, or financial complications hat would endanger their investments.

a)a public company disclose to their
b)a public company discloses to its
c)a public company disclose to its
d)public companies disclose to its
e)a public companies have disclosed to their

a public company is singular hence the prnoun should be its not their.this elimates A,E,D
also as SEC regulations is plural it will be diclose rather than dicloses hence this elminates the B so answer is C.

Please correct me if I am wrong

sirikesav:

i still have a doubt whether the correct answer should have 'disclose' or 'discloses'.

Public company is the subject of the clause followed by the verb 'require that', we should have a singular verb form (discloses). Since SEC regulations is plural, we have plural verb form 'require'.

BandN,

C is the correct answer. Although public company is singular, "disclose" is the right verb form. This is somewhat idiomatic. It goes "require X disclose Y", whether the X is singular or plural.

Option A
the use of 'their' here makes the option incorrect, a better construction should go with 'its'
Thus, this option is incorrect.

Option B.
The use of singular verb 'discloses' make this option incorrect. Talking about 'a public company' here, it should attract plural ver.
This option is incorrect.

Option C.
This is the correct answer as it follows proper parallelism and good verb tenses and sentence construction.

Option D.
This option is incorrect because a definite article does not precede 'public'

Option e.
This option is incorrect. The use of 'have' is inconsequential.