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by nafiul9090 » Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:13 pm
Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to
take some credit for the resurgence of the rare
Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with
laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles.
(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp
nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting

how to eliminate wrong choices here...help needed
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by honeysn » Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:35 pm
compliance is singular ... so verb should be singular. Now its down to options B and E ('is protecting').

Between B and E, I will go with option B -> 'compliance with laws requiring' is better than 'compliance with laws to require'
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by Calvin123 » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:10 am
nafiul9090 wrote:Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to
take some credit for the resurgence of the rare
Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with
laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles.
(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on
shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp
nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets
is protecting

how to eliminate wrong choices here...help needed
This is what Ron wrote about this problem in the 'Manhattan forum'

Text taken from: https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/rid ... t6594.html


"require" can also be used simply with a direct object, as in
i require perfection.
this device requires four AA batteries.
these are perfectly good sentences.

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(b) is the correct answer. it uses "require" with a direct object, as discussed above, and it also correctly uses the singular verb "is" with the singular subject "compliance". (we know "compliance" is the subject, because "with ..." is a prepositional phrase that serves only as a modifier of that subject.)

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(c)
"protect" is a plural verb and so doesn't agree with the singular subject "compliance".

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(d)
"are" is a plural verb and so doesn't agree with the singular subject "compliance".

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(d) and (e)
"laws to require..." isn't a correct idiom if you're discussing the actual text of the laws themselves. if you were discussing the ultimate purpose of those laws, then this could be idiomatic.
examples:
laws specifying long jail sentences for drunk drivers --> correct (___ing), since that's what the laws actually specify.
laws to specify long jail sentences for drunk drivers --> incorrect (that's not the ultimate purpose of the laws)
laws to discourage drunk driving --> correct (this IS actually the ultimate purpose of the laws)
I hope this will help.
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