To control public unease over the regime's impending economic collapse

Question

To control public unease over the regime's impending economic collapse, the government ordered local officials  should censor records of what were their communities' unemployment figures .

(A) should censor records of what were their communities' unemployment figures

(B) would do the censorship of records of their communities' unemployment figures

(C) censoring records of unemployment figures in their communities

(D) the censoring of a record of unemployment figures in their communities

(E) to censor records of unemployment figures in their communities

pushpitkc · Answer

When we are using word ordered, the verb usage must be to+ verb.
Also, 'their' which is a plural pronoun has a plural antecedent "local officials"

Option E is the correct answer.

Helium · Answer

Step 1: "To control…ordered…should censor" is the wrong sequence of verb tenses. We need a verb that communicates future action. Also, "to" normally follows "order".

Step 2: Eliminate (B), (C), and (D). Correct choice (E) uses the phrase "ordered to censor".

Bunuel · Answer

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

E

Read the sentence carefully, but don't get preoccupied with correcting it. Get right to the choices. Your ear will tell you that "...ordered local officials  to  censor records" (E) is correct.

shahidomer77 · Answer

Here E is the answer because ordered to is the correct idiom

Resily · Answer

I have marked E but I want to understand why is it not D. It sounds off to me, but that's not reason enough.  bb

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Resily ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the phrase "ordered local officials the censoring", formed by Option D, simply makes no logical sense.

We can say "the government ordered the censoring...by local officials" or "the government ordered local officials to censor", but "ordered local officials the censoring" is incoherent.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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