Before the primary school can open to the public in time for the fall

Question

Before the primary school can open to the public in time for the fall semester, the crew in charge of the project  must finish construction, cleaning, and safety-proofing it’s interior .

(A) must finish construction, cleaning, and safety-proofing it’s interior

(B) must finish construction of, cleaning, and safety-proof its interior

(C) must finish constructing, cleaning and safety-proofing it’s interior

(D) must finish constructing, cleaning, and safety-proofing its interior

(E) must finish construction, cleaning and safety-proofing the interior

KanishkM · Answer

IMO, it's will be referring back to the crew, which is an illogical reference

So as per the intent, only B , D and E remain

B is out for incorrect ||ism

D is the correct answer

E is out for illogical construction after "the interior"

Kezia9 · Answer

Hi, I choose D over C as it's in option C refers to the crew. Is my reasoning correct???

generis · Answer

Kezia9  , (C) incorrectly uses the contraction "it's," which means  it is .

its  is a possessive pronoun (as is, e.g.,  their )

(C) is also missing an Oxford comma.

What makes you think that it's (pretend that the word says ITS) refers to the crew?

And why does D not refer to the crew?

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

D. must finish constructing, cleaning, and safety-proofing its interior

Two primary problems exist in this sentence. The easiest to spot is likely the use of it’s (the contraction of it is) instead of the possessive form its. Eliminate Choices (A) and (C). Then check parallel structure in the underlined list. All projects must share the same grammatical form. Choices (B) and (E) improperly mix the noun construction with the gerund forms of cleaning and safety-proofing, and Choice (E) improperly defines construction as cleaning and safety-proofing the interior. The only answer choice that corrects both issues is Choice (D).

neelugarg33 · Answer

HI  Bunuel ,

Though (D) is the best of the lot, but isn't the use of 'its' quite redundant here?
It seems 'its' is referring to the crew rather than the school.

kritikumari · Answer

GMATNinja  does the "its" in sentence D refer to "crew" since "project" is the subject of preposition and as far as my understanding goes, a pronoun can not refer to the subject of the preposition. I can be completely wrong here. Just started learning. Please help.

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