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After the Second World War, the city of Cologne started the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish; the Bild, the largest daily, described as the most expensive repair undertaken ever.


A)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish;
B)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish;
C)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that had taken almost a decade to finish and
D)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and
E)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and that



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why that is required .. D is more effective than E
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why that is required .. D is more effective than E

In D the subject of the second part is "the bild"( "the bild" Described as the most.....)


Structure should be " a project that X and that Y

two parallel clauses with two different subjects--->that should be repeated to maintain the grammatical parallelism.
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After the Second World War, the city of Cologne started the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish; the Bild, the largest daily, described as the most expensive repair undertaken ever.


A)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish;
B)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish;
C)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that had taken almost a decade to finish and
D)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and
E)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and that

E is the answer , that and that llism .
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Please find my reasoning below :-)

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After the Second World War, the city of Cologne started the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish; the Bild, the largest daily, described as the most expensive repair undertaken ever.


A)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project, taking almost a decade to finish;
INCORRECT... a comma after a project is strange,and it is not clear what the Bild described.

B)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish;
INCORRECT... it is not clear what the Bild described.

C)repairing the historical Cathedral, a project that had taken almost a decade to finish and
INCORRECT... same as (B)

D)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and
INCORRECT... same as (B)

E)the repair of the historical Cathedral, a project that took almost a decade to finish and that
CORRECT... The Bild described this project as the most expensive repair undertaken ever.
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We want to talk about the repair - a project that took X time for completion and a project that was described as blah blah

E achieves that by virtue of parallelism.
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I stand for E.
My reasoning .

past perfect is wrong - eliminate C ,
Run on - eliminate A
After ";" There is no proper pronoun that can assure to whom the bild News company is referring to .
B is gone.
Now only D and E are left. In D to whom the build paper is referring to is not properly presented. Moreover, It is not parallel.

So E is answer.

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