Re: Verbal Challenge 3.1: SC Questions

4)Since 1992, when the board of directors voted to allow inside salespeople's commissions to be based on how the entire
department performs as a whole, several regional offices began setting department goals prohibitively high, with a goal to
incite individual competition and prevent against freeloading.

(A) inside salespeople's commissions to be based on how the entire department performs as a whole, several regional offices began-- Present perfect is needed.Wrong
(B) inside salespeople's commissions to be based on the performance of the entire department as a whole, several regional offices began -- Present perfect is needed. Wrong
(C) that the commission of inside salespeople be based on how the entire department performs as a whole, several regional offices have begun -- "voted to allow that the commission..blah blah" is awkward. That is not needed here.Wrong
(D) commission of inside salespeople to be based on the performance of the entire department as a whole, several regional offices have begun --CORRECT. Since 1992 (Modifier - when the board of directors voted to allow commission of inside salespeople to be based on the performance of the entire department as a whole) several regional offices gave begun…blah blah. Correctly uses present perfect. Modifier is grammatically correct
(E) that inside salespeople's commissions be based on the performance of the entire department as a whole, several regional offices began -- Present perfect is needed. Wrong