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The state medical review board is considering a new regulation that physicians practicing in state facilities with past malpractice suits having been filed against them are required to disclose any such suits to prospective patients.
A) that physicians practicing in state facilities with past malpractice suits having been filed against them are required to disclose any such suits to prospective patients
B) that requires physicians practicing in state facilities disclose any past malpractice suits filed against them to prospective patients
C) to require physicians with past malpractice suits filed against them and who practice in state facilities to disclose these to prospective patients
D) for physicians that practice in state facilities requiring them to have disclosed to prospective patients past malpractice suits filed against them
E) requiring physicians who practice in state facilities to disclose any past malpractice suits filed against them to prospective patients
11 Nov 2021, 23:49
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
The state medical review board is considering a new regulation that will require physicians to tell prospective patients whether malpractice suits have been filed against the physicians.
• Issues
→ Require, a "bossy" verb, can take the infinitive and the command subjunctive constructions.
Each kind of construction must be written a certain way. Read carefully when constructions must be written a particular way.
GMAC is not above leaving out a crucial word or two.
→ This group of options tempts an aspirant to go looking for the best answer.
Do not look for the best answer. (See Notes, below, in which I discuss trying to avoid confirming your own bias in SC.)
Eliminate the four worst answers.
THE OPTIONS
→ The verb having been filed means, in this case, that have been filed.
In either case, the verb signals something that happened in the past. The word past is redundant.
• Diction disaster. In a rough sense, "diction" refers to choosing the right words and putting them in the right places.
→ whatever follows "regulation" should quickly get to the mandate—to what the regulation will require.
In this option, by contrast, the word regulation is followed by the subject of the regulation, though we do not find out what this person must do for a long time.
The subject is followed a long noun modifier.
We have no idea what the the physicians are required to do until 13 words after "physician."
Neither of these issues is enough for me to eliminate an option on the first pass.
I'll keep this one, hold my nose, and look for a better sentence.
We need ". . . a new regulation that requires physicians . . . TO disclose any past malpractice suits. . ."
That error is fatal.
The bossy verb require can take either the infinitive or the command subjunctive construction.
If requires is not followed by that, then requires is followed by the infinitive. See Notes, below.
An infinitive contains the word TO. No exceptions.
• If you wanted this option to use the command subjunctive construction, you would ascertain whether the word that came after requires, as in requires that.
→ The command subjunctive rewrite of this sentence: The state medical review board is considering a new regulation [i]that requires THAT physicians practicing in state facilities disclose any past malpractice suits filed against them to prospective patients.
Yes, "that requires that" is clunky. But if you want requires to be in command subjunctive form, the verb requires must be followed by the word that.
Either way, we are missing a key part of the construction.
ELIMINATE B
→ does "these" refer to both the malpractice suits or the state facilities? To just the state facilities?
→ does "these" refer only to the suits? This interpretation is the most logical of the three, but GMAC is not a huge fan of "these" as a standalone pronoun and neither am I.
• Option A vs Option C?
Is one better than the other?
Call it within 5 seconds or move on.
I cannot make that call in 5 seconds. Moving on.
Keep C, hold my nose, and hope for a better answer.
→ to have disclosed is a fait accompli. The deed is done. Over with.
→ a prospective patient is one whom a physician has not yet treated.
How could a physician have already disclosed malpractice suits to a patient with whom she has not yet interacted?
ELIMINATE D
→ sometimes we cannot decide whether an answer is "among the 4 worst" until we can compare it to another or others and decide which is better and which is worse.
• Option E does not suffer from the redundancy and diction problems in Option A. Eliminate A.
• Option E is more concise than C and more to the point, hence clearer.
Whereas in (C), regulation is followed by physicians who blah blah blah, in (E), regulation is followed by requiring.
The issues in option C look definitively bad when compared to the absence of those issues in option E.
Eliminate C.
The best answer is E.
NOTES
• TAKEAWAY #1 : Read carefully and try to avoid confirming your biases.
You all have worked hard to learn the command subjunctive (the "bossy" verb construction).
[Command subjunctive: bossy verb + THAT + subject + bare infinitive]
Require is a "bossy" verb.
I suspect that your eye will catch "require" and you will be off to the races.
Okay, fine.
If you want to track on some form of require, remember that require is a bossy verb that can take two constructions, the infinitive and the command subjunctive:
Require + Infinitive
1) Require X TO DO Y
→ The judge required the defendant to comply with the subpoena or face jail time.
→ A subpoena requires a person to testify before or to give evidence to a court or other judicial body.
In case above, in which require is followed by an infinitive, you must see the entire infinitive: TO comply, TO testify, and TO give.
If you do not see the "infinitive 'to'," you need to look for these two words in one piece and in this order: require that.
If the latter were the case, you would be looking at require in the command subjunctive construction.
Command Subjunctive: Require + THAT
2) Require + THAT + subject + bare infinitive
→ The judge required that the defendant comply with the subpoena or face jail time.
→ A subpoena requires that a person testify before or give evidence to a court or other judicial body.
The two constructions are equally good. Which one you use doesn't matter, as long as you use one of them.
COMMENTS
This question is slippery.
We do not have any easily noticeable errors such as subject/verb agreement or pronoun/noun agreement.
Although POE is the way to solve, we must not get stuck.
If we cannot decide in 5 seconds whether to keep or toss an option, we keep it and move on.
GMAC is counting on you to get stuck and to obsess.
Try to teach yourself to say "I don't know enough yet," and to move on to the next option.
Let's say that you were to get the options down to B and E but couldn't decide which was better.
You would just call it. You have a 50-50 shot of getting the question correct.
Shikhar22 , you may well have seen a similar question; many test prep companies create SC questions by emulating OG sentences or by emulating other test prep companies' SC questions. (If you are asking me whether option E is the correct answer: yes.)
Kudos for helping and/or trying. Bravery is good.
Keep up the hard work!
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• Meaning?
The state medical review board is considering a new regulation that will require physicians to tell prospective patients whether malpractice suits have been filed against the physicians.
• Issues
→ Require, a "bossy" verb, can take the infinitive and the command subjunctive constructions.
Each kind of construction must be written a certain way. Read carefully when constructions must be written a particular way.
GMAC is not above leaving out a crucial word or two.
→ This group of options tempts an aspirant to go looking for the best answer.
Do not look for the best answer. (See Notes, below, in which I discuss trying to avoid confirming your own bias in SC.)
Eliminate the four worst answers.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
• Redundancy: having been filed = past
→ The verb having been filed means, in this case, that have been filed.
In either case, the verb signals something that happened in the past. The word past is redundant.
• Diction disaster. In a rough sense, "diction" refers to choosing the right words and putting them in the right places.
→ whatever follows "regulation" should quickly get to the mandate—to what the regulation will require.
In this option, by contrast, the word regulation is followed by the subject of the regulation, though we do not find out what this person must do for a long time.
The subject is followed a long noun modifier.
We have no idea what the the physicians are required to do until 13 words after "physician."
Neither of these issues is enough for me to eliminate an option on the first pass.
I'll keep this one, hold my nose, and look for a better sentence.
Quote:
• The word TO is missing.
We need ". . . a new regulation that requires physicians . . . TO disclose any past malpractice suits. . ."
That error is fatal.
The bossy verb require can take either the infinitive or the command subjunctive construction.
If requires is not followed by that, then requires is followed by the infinitive. See Notes, below.
An infinitive contains the word TO. No exceptions.
• If you wanted this option to use the command subjunctive construction, you would ascertain whether the word that came after requires, as in requires that.
→ The command subjunctive rewrite of this sentence: The state medical review board is considering a new regulation [i]that requires THAT physicians practicing in state facilities disclose any past malpractice suits filed against them to prospective patients.
Yes, "that requires that" is clunky. But if you want requires to be in command subjunctive form, the verb requires must be followed by the word that.
Either way, we are missing a key part of the construction.
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
• some ambiguity: what does "these" mean?
→ does "these" refer to both the malpractice suits or the state facilities? To just the state facilities?
→ does "these" refer only to the suits? This interpretation is the most logical of the three, but GMAC is not a huge fan of "these" as a standalone pronoun and neither am I.
• Option A vs Option C?
Is one better than the other?
Call it within 5 seconds or move on.
I cannot make that call in 5 seconds. Moving on.
Keep C, hold my nose, and hope for a better answer.
Quote:
• absurd and illogical
→ to have disclosed is a fait accompli. The deed is done. Over with.
→ a prospective patient is one whom a physician has not yet treated.
How could a physician have already disclosed malpractice suits to a patient with whom she has not yet interacted?
ELIMINATE D
Quote:
• Option E makes it easy to see that Options A and C are inferior to Option E
→ sometimes we cannot decide whether an answer is "among the 4 worst" until we can compare it to another or others and decide which is better and which is worse.
• Option E does not suffer from the redundancy and diction problems in Option A. Eliminate A.
• Option E is more concise than C and more to the point, hence clearer.
Whereas in (C), regulation is followed by physicians who blah blah blah, in (E), regulation is followed by requiring.
The issues in option C look definitively bad when compared to the absence of those issues in option E.
Eliminate C.
The best answer is E.
NOTES
• TAKEAWAY #1 : Read carefully and try to avoid confirming your biases.
You all have worked hard to learn the command subjunctive (the "bossy" verb construction).
[Command subjunctive: bossy verb + THAT + subject + bare infinitive]
Require is a "bossy" verb.
I suspect that your eye will catch "require" and you will be off to the races.
Okay, fine.
If you want to track on some form of require, remember that require is a bossy verb that can take two constructions, the infinitive and the command subjunctive:
Require + Infinitive
1) Require X TO DO Y
→ The judge required the defendant to comply with the subpoena or face jail time.
→ A subpoena requires a person to testify before or to give evidence to a court or other judicial body.
In case above, in which require is followed by an infinitive, you must see the entire infinitive: TO comply, TO testify, and TO give.
If you do not see the "infinitive 'to'," you need to look for these two words in one piece and in this order: require that.
If the latter were the case, you would be looking at require in the command subjunctive construction.
Command Subjunctive: Require + THAT
2) Require + THAT + subject + bare infinitive
→ The judge required that the defendant comply with the subpoena or face jail time.
→ A subpoena requires that a person testify before or give evidence to a court or other judicial body.
The two constructions are equally good. Which one you use doesn't matter, as long as you use one of them.
COMMENTS
This question is slippery.
We do not have any easily noticeable errors such as subject/verb agreement or pronoun/noun agreement.
Although POE is the way to solve, we must not get stuck.
If we cannot decide in 5 seconds whether to keep or toss an option, we keep it and move on.
GMAC is counting on you to get stuck and to obsess.
Try to teach yourself to say "I don't know enough yet," and to move on to the next option.
Let's say that you were to get the options down to B and E but couldn't decide which was better.
You would just call it. You have a 50-50 shot of getting the question correct.
Shikhar22 , you may well have seen a similar question; many test prep companies create SC questions by emulating OG sentences or by emulating other test prep companies' SC questions. (If you are asking me whether option E is the correct answer: yes.)
Kudos for helping and/or trying. Bravery is good.
Keep up the hard work!
General Discussion
11 Nov 2021, 23:50
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B. Correct command subjunctive form, which none of the other sentences follow.
Also I think I have come across this question before. Or a question very similar to this.
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Also I think I have come across this question before. Or a question very similar to this.
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