The legislature has proposed a bill requiring that firms should retain

when a trigger word like demand , propose is used to+verb is not used ? then why option E is used . @e-gmat

Aks4444MBA here requiring is not a verb. An - ING word in order to be a verb has to be preceded by a "to be" verb is, am, are, was, were,etc

The correct idiom is "proposed x to y"

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option B is the passive form , and when there's an active form available in the options , i think GMAT will always prefer the active form. Hence option E

Hi AjiteshArun,

How is E correct ? It is using an infinitive "to retain " in a subjunctive setup.

Hi Namangupta1997,

The verb require may be followed by a that-clause, but it can also be followed by, as you mentioned, an infinitive. In fact, we can even use a noun after it ("this patient requires oxygen").

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Hello Namangupta1997,

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To answer your query, “bossy verb (“requires”) + infinitive verb form (“to + base form of verb”- “retain” in this sentence)” is, indeed, a correct subjunctive mood usage.

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In this sentence, "requiring" is not acting as a verb. If the sentence was something like " The legislature has proposed a bill which requires... " , in that case, would option B be correct ?

Hi Namangupta1997, I will let Ajitesh sir respond to your query with his invaluable insights as well, but since I was passing by this thread, I will just share a quick point here.

The subjunctive, as Ajitesh sir has mentioned in his earlier post, is not incorrect with "require" -- in fact, you can even have a noun after "requires". In isolation, (B) would have been perfect, albeit slightly passive, as "requiring" (in this context) is more or less the same as the reduction of "that/which" + requires -- do note that there should be no comma before "which". The issue with (B) is that we have got an "...or face" ahead in the non-underlined portion, and therefore the parallelism doesn't hold.

When approaching an SC question, don't be confined to just one rule which may be applicable to the question. Developing a solid SC strategy, particularly for attaining a V42+ score, requires an immaculate understanding of the fundamentals, and having the wherewithal (which stems from the former idea) to know when to apply two or more different rules to the same question, depending upon the logic, the meaning, and the non-underlined portion of the sentence.

Hope this helps, and of course, Ajitesh sir can, and probably will, share a much better version of my poorly rehashed ideas

Option B seems to suggest the meaning that "all account records" (whether or not a firm's own, may the legislature's) should be maintained by firms (a particular set of firms appointed by the legislature)

Since there are at least 2 possible meanings that seems to follow the correct grammatical flow, I would assume that this option is ambiguous.

I was confused between A and E and was out of any reason to discard one of them so I went with A. Can anyone help here?