The Coca Cola company

You can't demand someone to do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak). This eliminates B and E.

C 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 meant.

D looks fine to me. I have no idea why they think it's wrong (if you're saying that they do). To me, A is not incorrect but there is a slight sense that the "demanding that..." clause is "hanging in mid-air". The definite "who demanded" in D seems stronger to me. So, I'd go for D.

Marius Hancu

Mr. Wordy said:

> You can't demand someone to do something (at least not in the version of English that I speak).

It seems to work somewhere, perhaps in the US:

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Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival - Page 201

by Daniel Jaffee - Social Science - 2007 - 331 pages

Yet when confronted with complaints from thousands of consumers demanding that

it stock more fair-trade beans, the company swears it can't locate enough ...

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I said "You can't demand someone to do something". In your example, someone is demanding that someone do something, which is fine.

Having said that, it's not hard to find examples of the "to" form. It sure sounds wrong to me, but, as you say, it might be more accepted in the US.

MaverickK

The correct answer is D. But I still can not understand why is A incorrect?

I 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.  I once met a British teacher of  English, an Oxford University graduate, who thought this is the only way to do it was wrong. In his opinion only this is the only way of doing it was correct. Everyone is entitled to his opinion, of course.

Any good grammar book and/or grammar expert will tell you that after the verb demand both the present subjunctive and should are correct in a that clause:

He demanded that I gravel the sidewalk. He demanded that I should gravel the sidewalk.

CB