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MaverickK Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

The Coca Cola company

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00Please look at the following sentence.Which of the mentioned options( A -E) best fills in the underlined words? I can not undertstand why the remaining are wrong? Please explain.02br
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00In one of the most stunning reversals in the history of marketing, the Coca-Cola company in July 1985 yielded to thousands of irate consumers 01u00demanding that it should02u00 bring back the original Coke formula.02br
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00(A) demanding that it should02br
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00(B) demanding it to02br
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00(C) and their demand to02br
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00(D) who demanded that it02br
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00(E) who demanded it to0-
  

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0You can't demand someone 01i 00to02i 00 do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak). This eliminates B and E. 02br 02br 00D looks fine to me.

— Mr Wordy

  • 0You can't demand someone 01i 00to02i 00 do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak).
  • This eliminates B and E.
  • 02br 02br 00D looks fine to me.
  • I have no idea why they think it's wrong (if you're saying that they do).
  • " clause is "hanging in mid-air".
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0You can't demand someone 01i00to02i00 do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak). This eliminates B and E. 02br
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00C is wrong because "their demand to bring back the original Coke formula" implies that the consumers were demanding that they themselves should be allowed to bring back the formula, which obviously isn't what's
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0Mr. Wordy said: 02br
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00> You can't demand someone 01i00to02i00 do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak).02br
00It seems to work somewhere, perhaps in the US:02br
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00by Daniel Jaffee - 05100 - 2007 - 331 pages02br
00Yet when confront
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Mr. Wordy said: 12br
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10> You can't demand someone 11i10to12i10 do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak).12br
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10It seems to work somewhere, perhaps in the US:12br
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0Thanks for all your replies. The correct answer is D. But I still can not understand why is A incorrect? Marius Hancu has also mentioned the "demanding that it" usage which is used. That is what the option A is using. Then why is it incorrect?0-
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01cite10MaverickK12cite10The correct answer is D. But I still can not understand why is A incorrect? 12br
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10I think you have encountered a grammar "expert" who has very strong opinions about correct usage and little understanding of anything or anyone who disagrees with him.05000 I once me
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