The company will cover the entire cost of the training, required to educate their employees on new rules and regulations, from its in-house fund.


A. required to educate their employees on new rules and regulations, from its
Incorrect pronoun "their"

B. requiring it to educate its employees on new rules and regulations, from their
Incorrect pronoun "their"

C. it is required to educate its employees on new rules and regulations, from its
Wordy and uses it incorrectly

D. required to educate its employees on new rules and regulations, from its
Correct

E. required to educate their employees on new rules and regulations, from their
Incorrect pronouns

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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:

While one can notice the difference at the beginning of the answer choices, working with your pronoun options (low-hanging fruit!) offers the easiest place to start this question. There are two main pronouns among your answer choices, related to the employees and the funds. Both the employees and the funds are those of the company -- singular -- so the sentence requires the singular possessive pronoun "its" throughout. Answers (A), (B), and (E) all use "their" at various points and thus are wrong. Answer (C) does correctly use singular pronouns. However, (C) features a type of sentence construction error known as a comma splice. The clause "the company will cover..." is an independent clause -- a complete sentence standing alone -- but so is the clause "it is required to educate..." Two independent clauses in a sentence cannot be connected by just a comma. Instead, either a semicolon or else a comma-conjunction pairing is necessary. Since (C) offers neither, it is wrong.

The only answer that fixes all of the pronouns while maintaining the required modifier structure is Answer (D), so D is correct.
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C is the answer.

Topics tested-
Pronouns
Subject verb Agreement
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