Bunuel wrote:
All parents who wish to hold a leadership position in the Boy Scouts are required, regardless of whether or not their child is a member,
for taking youth protection training.
A. for taking youth protection training
B. for making sure youth protection training is taken
C. to take youth protection training
D. to have taken of the youth protection training
E. of taking youth protection training
KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(C)
Step 1: Read the Original Sentence Carefully, Looking for ErrorsWhen analyzing this sentence, it is helpful to mentally delete the additional information between commas. The word “for” at the beginning of the underlined portion is part of the phrase “required for taking.” However, saying “X is required for Y” suggests that you need X in order to have Y. That doesn’t logically work in this sentence. To make it clear that taking the training is necessary, the phrase should be “required to take.”
Step 2: Scan and Group the Answer Choices(A) and (B) start with “for,” (C) and (D) start with “to,” and (E) starts with “of.”
Step 3: Eliminate Choices Until Only One Remains(A) and (B) can be eliminated for using “for” instead of “to.” (B), in fact, makes things worse by suggesting it doesn’t matter who takes the training, as long as it’s taken. (E) changes “for” to “of,” but that doesn’t fix the problem. If it’s said that “X is required of Y,” then the X part is the requirement, and this sentence should say that the training is a requirement. Eliminate (E).
(C) and (D) properly use “to,” but (D) unnecessarily puts the action in the past, and the word “of” does not belong. That eliminates (D), leaving (C) as the correct answer. To confirm, read it back into the original sentence:
All parents who wish to hold a leadership position in the Boy Scouts are required, regardless of whether or not their child is a member,
to take youth protection training.