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by reply2spg » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:12 am
The Securities Exchange Commission requires that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements.

(A) that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements
(B) that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in an audited financial statement
(C) a publicly traded company to disclose to its shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements
(D) that a publicly traded company disclose it to shareholders if audited financial statements have any inconsistencies
(E) a publicly traded company that it should disclose to its shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements

OA [spoiler]C. Isn't this subjunctive mood? what is wrong with D other than possessive pronoun?[/spoiler]
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by fibbonnaci » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:56 am
what does 'it' refer to?in D?
there is a lot of difference in 'it' and 'its' and hence the meaning changes drastically.
There is no referrant for 'it' in D at all.
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by kevincanspain » Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:03 pm
require, order, ask, advice, instruct

These verbs can use the subjunctive mood after THAT or an object and an infinitive


require THAT something HAPPEN
require somebody to do something

are both acceptable
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by reply2spg » Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:22 pm
@Fibbo, while solving this question I thought 'it' refers to statements. But now I understand how dumb I was. Got 11 correct out of 16 :( because of such silly mistakes. Thanks for figuring out the mistake

@Kevin - thanks, it helped
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by amith.s.m » Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:08 am
The answer is C isnt it?
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by prinit » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:51 am
reply2spg wrote:The Securities Exchange Commission requires that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements.

(A) that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements
(B) that a publicly traded company disclose to their shareholders any inconsistencies in an audited financial statement
(C) a publicly traded company to disclose to its shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements
(D) that a publicly traded company disclose it to shareholders if audited financial statements have any inconsistencies
(E) a publicly traded company that it should disclose to its shareholders any inconsistencies in audited financial statements

OA [spoiler]C. Isn't this subjunctive mood? what is wrong with D other than possessive pronoun?[/spoiler]
My pick is C.
A and B are wrong for usage of their
D - we need its here not it.
E - is wordy and wrong construction that it should disclose to its
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by [email protected] » Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:20 pm
Why is there no ambiguity about usage of 'its' in C ?

Can't we take that it can refer to either of the preceeding pronouns?
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