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Beginning in 1963 with General Motors and lasting until the end of a second stint with General Motors, which he helped successfully guide out of bankruptcy in 2009, Bob Lutz saw his career as one of the automotive industry's true visionaries span nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and responsibility for countless industry innovations.
A)Bob Lutz saw his career as one of the automotive industry's true visionaries span nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and responsibility for countless industry innovations
B)the career of Bob Lutz, one of the automotive industry's true visionaries, has spanned nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and countless industry innovations
C)Bob Lutz's career as one of the automotive industry's true visionaries has spanned four separate automakers, two continents, and responsibility for countless industry innovations over nearly fifty years
D)the career of Bob Lutz, one of the automotive industry's true visionaries, spanned two continents over nearly fifty years, during which time Lutz was responsible for countless industry innovations at four separate automakers.
E)Bob Lutz has seen his career as one of the automotive industry's true visionaries span nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and countless industry innovations that he was responsible for
please find Explanation below...
Lets 1st cut through the fluff and get to the real crux of the sentence, which is
Beginning in 1963 ...,
Bob Lutz saw his career as one of the automotive industry's true visionaries span nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and responsibility for countless industry innovations.Now the problem with this sentence is that the modifier
Beginning in 1963 is modifying
Bob Lutz, which is incorrect. It must modify Bob Lutz's career instead. So options (A) and (E) go away.
Now cutting through the fluff of the remaining options gets us
B)the career of Bob Lutz, ...,
has spanned nearly fifty years, two continents, four separate automakers, and countless industry innovations
This option uses Present Perfect tense has spanned to describe a career that happened in the Past. A simple Past tense
spanned is required here. Present Perfect tense suggest his career is ongoing
C)Bob Lutz's career ...
has spanned four separate automakers, two continents, and responsibility for countless industry innovations over nearly fifty years
- Same problem as option B,
Simple Past tense required D)the career of Bob Lutz, one of the automotive industry's true visionaries, spanned two continents over nearly fifty years, during which time Lutz was responsible for countless industry innovations at four separate automakers.
This is grammatically perfect
one of the automotive industry's true visionaries describes Bob Lutz,
spanned two continents over nearly fifty years describes his career,
during which time Lutz was responsible for countless industry innovations at four separate automakers describes fifty years career.
So the correct answer is D