Our tour guide requested that, while hiking through the national park, ““our garbage not be thrown”” on the trails.
A."our garbage not be thrown
B. Our garbage should not be thrown
C. Not to throw our garbage
D. We did not throw our garbage
E. We not throw our garbage
I have no idea of the correct answer… Please help!!!
This is a partly participle problem. Ask yourself who or what is hiking through the woods. Garbage doesn’t hike. So eliminate A-B.
“Requested that” must be followed by a complete clause (subject + verb), not just a verb phrase. So eliminate C.
After verbs like “request,” “demand,” “order,” followed by “that,” idiomatic English requires a clause built around a subjunctive verb. D fails that test, but E fits it.
What you really want is to memorize the pattern: request that +
Thus:
We request that you go
They requested that he email an apology
The king demanded that the prisoner be shot
The construction “Our tour guide requested that our garbage not be thrown” is fine–the problem, as @WasatchWriter notes, is the modifier error. The modifier “hiking through the woods” has no anchor. The fix is to insert a subject into the final phrase: “Our tour guide requested that, while hiking through the national park, we not throw our garbage on the ground” (E).
Thanks you a lot! I chose D, but I now see the mistake.
