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The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals.

(A) should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals
(B) would do the preparation of lists of their communities' suspected criminals
(C) preparing lists of suspected criminals in their communities
(D) the preparing of a list of suspected criminals in their communities
(E) to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities


All the options except for E are awkward, wordy, and have an incorrect verb/tense form. The correct grammatical construction has to be ordered panels of common citizens to prepare

Hence, I'll go with E
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The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals.

(A) should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals
(B) would do the preparation of lists of their communities' suspected criminals
(C) preparing lists of suspected criminals in their communities
(D) the preparing of a list of suspected criminals in their communities
(E) to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities


Straight E...its subjunctive mood. Needs to form of verb.
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The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals.

(A) should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals
(B) would do the preparation of lists of their communities' suspected criminals
(C) preparing lists of suspected criminals in their communities
(D) the preparing of a list of suspected criminals in their communities
(E) to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities

The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities.

Correct answer must be (E) , for the highlighted errors in other options...
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The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth -century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals.

A) should prepare lists of who were their communities' suspected criminals
B) would do the preparation of lists of their communities' suspected criminals
C) preparing lists of suspected criminals in their communities
D) the preparing of a list of suspected criminals in their communities
E) to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities


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I am confused with e. I thought it was incorrect to have active sentence "x required y to do", instead thought only correct form was "x required that y do". Isn't that true? When is it not the case?
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My perfect version of this sentence: The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens to prepare lists of suspected criminals.

Here's a 1-minute video I made to help explain this question.

https://youtu.be/XS5uA-pUIJw

Originally posted by mcelroytutoring on 20 Oct 2020, 21:27.
Last edited by mcelroytutoring on 29 Oct 2020, 11:36, edited 2 times in total.
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I am confused with e. I thought it was incorrect to have active sentence "x required y to do", instead thought only correct form was "x required that y do". Isn't that true? When is it not the case?

Hi plalud, an official question where require does not take subjunctive:

Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires anyone who buys more than 5 percent of a company’s stock to make a public disclosure of the purchase.

Of course, the following subjunctive version would have been correct as well:

Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires that anyone who buys more than 5 percent of a company’s stock make a public disclosure of the purchase.

However, the absence of a that (after requires) in the original sentence is a clear indication that the sentence is not using subjunctive.

In general, if all the 5 options use Subjunctive (or if all 5 options do not use Subjunctive), then it's a moot point to worry about this aspect. Rather than being pedantic about grammar, one should develop an eye in SC, to spot the differences between the 5 answer choices given, to see what really matters for that question.

p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses Subjunctive, its application and examples in significant detail. If you or someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.
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Here's the official explanation provided by the GMAC for this question:

The sentence fails to use the familiar idiomatic construction ordered x to do y. The awkward who were should be omitted. A list should be followed by the elements that compose it, so lists here should be followed by of suspected criminals, preventing the possible misreading of lists of communities.

Option A: Ordered should be followed by to prepare; who were is awkward and unnecessary; lists should be followed by suspected criminals

Option B: Ordered is followed by would do rather than to prepare ; do the preparation is wordy; lists should be followed by suspected criminals

Option C: Ordered is followed by preparing rather than to prepare

Option D: Ordered is followed by the preparing of rather than to prepare

Option E: Correct. In this sentence, ordered is correctly followed by to prepare ; lists is immediately followed by of suspected criminals, and placing in their communities at the end prevents misreading.

The correct answer is E.

Please note that I'm not the author of this explanation. I'm just posting it here since I believe it can help the community.
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This is an idiomatic based question. Good thing to do is that one should take note of the idiomatic usages that come in official questions and make a compilation.
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