It is ironic that the management (1) / of the organisation refuses to adhere (2) / to the same standards of corporate governance (3) / that it requires of companies deals with it. (4) / No error (5)

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1. Identify the fault: Part (4) "that it requires of companies deals with it" is ungrammatical.

2. Why it's wrong: The clause "deals with it" cannot directly follow "companies" without a relative connector or a reduced-relative form. As written, the sequence "companies deals" is ill-formed because a verb phrase is not correctly attached to the noun it modifies.

3. Correct structure: The intended meaning is that the organisation requires certain standards of those companies which deal with it. This can be expressed correctly as either

- "...the same standards of corporate governance that it requires of companies that deal with it." or
- "...the same standards of corporate governance that it requires of companies dealing with it."

4. Conclusion: The grammatical error is therefore in part (4), which must be corrected to include a proper relative clause or a participial form.

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