2 OG questions with conflicting answer

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2 OG questions with conflicting answer

by vikram4689 » Thu May 17, 2012 9:51 pm
Because of the enormous research and development expenditures required to survive in the electronics industry, an industry marked by rapid innovation and volatile demand, such firms tend to be very large.
(A) to survive
(B) of firms to survive
(C) for surviving
(D) for survival
(E) for firms' survival

OA B required of X to do Y is correct in above ques. BUT for below ques. OG says required of X to do Y is INCORRECT

Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.
(A) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are
(B) that pay for jobs historically held by women should be the same as for a job requiring comparable skills
(C) to pay the same in jobs historically held by women as in jobs of comparable skill that are
(D) to pay the same regardless of whether a job was historically held by women or is one demanding comparable skills(A)
(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

Choice A is best. In choice B, should is illogical after requires, or at least unnecessary, and so is better omitted;in choices B and E, job does not agree in number with jobs; and in choices B, D, and E, the wording illogically describes the comparable skills rather than the jobs as being "usually held by men." Choices C, D, and E produce the ungrammatical construction requires of... employers to pay, in which of makes the phrase incorrect. In C, the use of in rather than for is unidiomatic, and jobs of comparable skill confusedly suggests that the jobs rather than the workers possess the skills. In D, the phrase beginning regardless ... is awkward and wordy in addition to being illogical.
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by ihatemaths » Thu May 17, 2012 10:20 pm
i am sorry the OA is right but . for the first question it is necessary to have "of firms to survive" , else the whole meaning is getting altered . for eg : just plug in "for survival" does the last part make any sense .Since after the second comma there is "such firms" it is necessary to have "of firms to survive" .

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri May 18, 2012 6:54 am
As ihatemaths said, the first one requires a reference to firms for "such firms" to make sense later on.

In the second, if we mark off the prepositional phrase, we can see that starting the underlined portion with "to" doesn't work:

Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires (of both public and private employers) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.


Our options are:

Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires...that...

or

Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires...to...

"Requires that" is the better choice.



There isn't really a conflict here. The first one uses "required" as a participle describing the "enormous research and development expenditures", while the second uses the present tense verb "requires".
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by heymayank08 » Sat May 19, 2012 10:33 pm
bill
i still didn't get the 2nd one can u pls elaborate

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