vipulgoyal 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

B

I thought this sc falls under Subjunctive

One purpose of the subjunctive mood is to express an action that is HYPOTHETICAL: an action that might not actually happen.
When we request an action from an OUTSIDE PARTY, we cannot be certain that the outside party will comply with our request.
Because the requested action might not actually happen, we use the COMMAND SUBJUNCTIVE.
The structure of the command subjunctive is as follows:
SUBJECT + BOSSY WORD + THAT + OUTSIDE PARTY + BARE INFINITIVE.
Examples of bossy words: require, propose, dictate, request, etc.
The bare infinitive is the infinitive form of a verb with the to omitted.

Example:
The law requires that drivers be licensed.
In the sentence above:
Subject = the law.
Bossy word = requires.
Outside party = drivers.
Bare infinitive = be licensed (to be licensed with the to omitted).

OA for the SC above: laws requiring turtle-excluder devices
Here, no action is being required, so the subjunctive mood is not needed.

For a fuller explanation of this SC, check here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/requiring-th ... 82351.html