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please explain .. SC question

by bharath2787 » Tue Aug 20, 2013 3:47 am

In a move that surprised many political analysts, Republicans were forced to yield to conservative Christians demanding that they should modify their party platform to reflect public concerns about social issues, including abortion.

A. demanding that they should
B. demanding it to
C. and their demand to
D. who demanded that it
E. who demanded it to

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by vinay1983 » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:25 am

The chioces are very ambiguos.

A. "Demanding"---Usually used to describe nature of job (Demanding job)
B. Apart from demanding, usage of "it" is incorrect (Republicans and Christians are plural)If a political party would have been mentioned then it could have been used.
C. and their demand to--ambiguous but has correct usage of "to"...To conservative christians, to modify and to reflect
D & E---because they use "it", otherwise the word "who" refers to Christians (modifies)

"Who" in C would have been great.

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by [email protected] » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:28 pm

Hi bharath2787,

This SC gets a little goofy with the pronouns, but for the sake of the discussion, here are the two rules that the prompt is based on:

1) Republicans is a plural noun, so any pronoun should be plural (they, them or their) and NOT ambiguous (since conservative Christians is ALSO a plural noun)

2) The command verb "demand"; the style rule for "command verbs" is: "Command Verb", then the word "that", then the "infinitive of the next verb".

With the second rule, you can knock out most of the wrong answers. Add in the first rule and you'll narrow it down to just the correct answer.

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