142. In one of the most stunning reversals in the history of marketing, the Coca-Cola company in July 1985 yielded to thousands of irate consumers demanding that it should bring back the original Coke formula.

(A) demanding that it should

(B) demanding it to

(C) and their demand to

(D) who demanded that it

(E) who demanded it to

Choice D, the best answer, uses the grammatically correct expression demanded that it bring back, in which demanded that it is followed by the subjunctive verb bring.

Choice A incorrectly uses should bring rather than bring:

demanding that already conveys the idea of "should," and at any rate a modal（情态）

auxiliary （辅助）verb, such as should or must, cannot grammatically follow the

expression demanded that. Similarly,

B and E use the ungrammatical expression demanding/demanded it to.

In C, the expression yielded to... customers and their demand to bring... unnecessarily states that the company yielded to the customers as well as to their demand.

This expression also fails to specify that the company is expected to bring back the original formula.

我的问题是如果选项A中的should去掉的话，下面三种限定性修饰有什么区别呢？

1. thousands of irate consumers demanding that

2. thousands of irate consumers with the demand that

3. thousands of irate consumers who demanded that

谢谢大家帮助。

1 and 3, which can be used here, are better than 2, which is wordy.

The difference betten 1 and 3 is that 1 emphasize ongoing action but 3 not.