After the Second World War, the city of Cologne

Question

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

SARITADIXIT · Answer

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

Nitingupta1989 · Answer

D

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VyshakhR1995 · Answer

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.
Hope its clear

sobby · Answer

E is the answer , that and that llism .

sleepynut · Answer

Please find my reasoning below :-)

warriorguy · Answer

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.

Nightmare007 · Answer

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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After the Second World War, the city of Cologne

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