The football team's winning it's first game of the season

Question

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.

blueseas · Accepted Answer

IT'S = IT IS ITS = POSSESIVE OF IT It's It's is short for it is or it has. This is a 100% rule. It cannot be used for anything else. If you cannot expand it's to it is or it has, then it is wrong. Its Its is like his and her. Read more at https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_c ... MGFWxZg.99 WE NEED POSSESIVE THATS WHY ALL OTHER OPTIONS ARE WRONG hope it helps

Zarrolou · Answer

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.

maaadhu · Answer

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.

jdl2z · Answer

I do not believe any of the answers are correct. The sentence should read:  The football team, having won it's first game of the season, excited the student body.

Zarrolou · Answer

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

maaadhu · Answer

Yes I was referring to the same rule.

Thanks Zarralou for letting me know about it. I did not know that rule was removed.

Phoenix72 · Answer

Is this even a GMAT like question?

praneeth4u · Answer

Hi,

Wat about the option 'B'

Kind regards,
Praneeth

jlgdr · Answer

It could be. Just learn it, it isn't tough. It's = It is, Its= Possessive 1 minute Done Cheers J

gauravsaggis1 · Answer

in option B, had it been its in place of it's. will it then be a right answer?
can anyone please explain the intended meaning of this sentence? as I am totally confused.
team's is a possesive isn't it?

thangvietname · Answer

this question is totally wrong.

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thangvietname · Answer

this question is totally wrong.

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dont waste time for this thing

issamL · Answer

This sentence is completely wrong! the '' football team" plays the role of an adjective rather than a noun! hence the supposedly correct answer (D) can be simplified into : the winning its first game of the season. (No sense at all).

GL.

GL.

Mavisdu1017 · Answer

Confused by this question. If “IT'S = IT IS” as the post above said, there are 2 verbs in this sentence... so this should be a wrong sentence.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Mavisdu1017 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, "it ' s" - as seen in Options A, B, C, and E means "it is", so these answer choices are incorrect; however, Option D uses "its" - the version with no apostrophe - which is simply the possessive form of the pronoun "it"; thus, Option D correctly conveys that the action of "winning" belonged to the school's football team, meaning it was performed by the football team.

We hope this helps.
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Mavisdu1017 · Answer

ExpertsGlobal5  Sorry expect, I’m still confused. As you said, i know “team’s” stands for the possessive form of the noun “team”, so “winning” should be a noun(not a verb), but the following content “its first game” is also a noun, so I don’t think it is grammatically correct: noun+noun. Pls correct me and thanks.

brianmontanaweb · Answer

D because of its being possessive

But there's multiple typos for each option at the end of the phrase, there's a period.

D should be phrased as "The football team winning its first game of the season" since winning is the action and not a thing in this context.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Mavisdu1017 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, in this question "winning its first game of the season" is a gerund phrase - "winning" is a present participle ("verb+ing") acting as a noun - that refers to the action of "winning" that was done by the team.

Consider this sentence - "Your smoking has gotten out of hand."; here, "smoking" is a gerund that refers to the action or habit of smoking.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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