nsupergeek wrote:
Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles.
(A) requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect
(B) requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting
(C) that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets protect
(D) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets are protecting
(E) to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting@@
@gmatninja could you please provide your explanation
The first thing I notice: we have a choice between a plural verb and a singular one. The subject here is "compliance," so we want the singular verb phrase, "is protecting." That eliminates (A), (C), and (D).
Now we have to decide between "laws to require" and "laws requiring." This is all about meaning. If a government passes a law
to do something, we're talking about the desired outcome of the law. A law to make driving safer, for instance, doesn't tell you what the law actually does. It tells you the
goal behind creating the law.
But a law
requiring something would tell us what the law actually does. A law requiring lower speed limits, for instance, gives us the actual mechanics of the law.
So that's the question. And here, we're definitely getting the mechanics of the law -- turtle-excluder devices are required. So we want "laws requiring," which leaves us with (B).
The takeaway: don't try to memorize that discussion about the difference between "a law to do" and "a law requiring." Take this is an example of a question that comes down to thinking hard about meaning and trying to determine which option is more logical, when there's no more grammar to evaluate.
I hope that helps!
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