Sentence Correction

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
(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

IMO C

require X to Y
&
parallelism

IMO A

IMO A

will go wit A

whats wrong with C? and y A?

Was this answer A or C. Is is A because "requires...that"?

C for me
OA?

What's wrong with E?

Can someone explain :

missionmba wrote:IMO C

require X to Y
&
parallelism

You have the correct idiom, but it is not being used in this sentence,

The sentence says 'Requires of.......' and hence should be followed by that.
Also the use of subjunctive mood warrants the use of constructions that + infinitive form of verb

Hence A

yup A..

In regards to the IMO answers that are flooding this whole column, I dont think we are gaining anything at all by writing "IMO A" or "IMO B". So lets talk this out and try to learn here.

1.) I am pitted against the answer choice of A because it is a direct and clear violation of the English Idiom "Require X to do Y". To further explain, consider this example. If you work for this company, you are REQUIRED TO come to work everyday!.

2.) THe test writers almost always try to hide the subject of the sentence but you can easily find the subject because it is usually right before the word OF. THe subject here is singular not plurarl. So what can we say about that. I like C.

for subjuntive, " requires that" should come together which is not the case here. hence subjuntive is ruled out.

hence C is my choice

The answer is A.

It's true that you can use the verb 'require' in the pattern 'require X to do Y." But the sentence doesn't say 'require' alone, it says 'require of.' So you have to use 'that' and then the subjunctive form of the verb -- which is the infinitive without the word 'to', or in other words, the bare stem of the verb.