das.ashmita 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
OA B
...that their COMPLIANCE...IS PROTECTING adult sea turtles.
The subject of this relative clause is COMPLIANCE (singular).
Thus, the verb attributed to this subject (IS PROTECTING) must also be singular.
Eliminate A, C and D.
In E,
laws TO REQUIRE turtle-excluder devices implies that the INTENTION/PURPOSE of the laws is TO REQUIRE turtle-excluder devices.
But the shrimpers' compliance with the laws IS PROTECTING the sea turtles RIGHT NOW.
To convey the intended meaning -- that the laws already ARE IN EFFECT -- a VERBing modifier is needed:
their compliance with laws REQUIRING turtle-excluder devices.
Eliminate E.
The correct answer is
B.
Last edited by GMATGuruNY on Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:27 am, edited 1 time in total.
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