maaadhu wrote:
Zarrolou wrote:
summer101 wrote:
The football team's winning it's first game of the season excited the student body.
A. The football team's winning it's first game of the season.
B. The football team having won it's first game of the season.
C. The football team's having won it's first game of the season.
D. The football team's winning its first game of the season.
E. The football team winning it's first game of the season.
Not convinced with the OA.
Every choice except D has a huge problem :
"it's" (it's a verb, not a possessive), for example A
A. The football team's winning IT IS first game of the season.<== this is grammatically incorrect
D is the best choice because it does not have this problem.
Zarralou,
Dont you think in D, the phrase "The football team's winning" is a noun phrase and "ITS" is referring to "football team" which is not specified in the answer choices.
Hi maaadhu,
I think that you are referring to the "poison pronoun"(or something similar) rule of
MGMAT, according to which in sentence like
"The house of Maria (....) her" the pronoun "her" cannot stand for "Maria". Am I correct?
If that's the case, remember that this rule has been removed from the
MGMAT guides, and appears on 0 Official Problems. So my advise is not to bother with it.
Hope this is what you meant