Sentence Correction

None of the houses that Frank Lloyd Wright built in the Prairie Style actually stood on the prairie, though the drawings in the 1910 Wasmuth edition of his work shows the buildings in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West.

A. work shows the buildings
B. work shows that the buildings were
C. works show the buildings
D. works show the buildings as being
E. works show the buildings to have been

OA C

Hi Mitch !

Can you please discuss C vs E?

Regards
SR

Sentence correction questions are usually best tackled by reading the initial sentence, looking for the errors that we know GMAT test writers like to test for. In this case we can see that the sentence says:

"the drawings...shows the buildings..."

So we can safely eliminate (A) and (B).

Let's also suppose that you have heard that the word being is wrong (not 100% true), so you eliminate (D). How can you choose between the remaining two choices?

A simple rule of thumb is that shorter answers tend to be better than longer answers. So (C) must be our leading candidate for the best answer. Unless we find something objectionable about (C), we should select it at the best choice.

I find nothing wrong with (C) at all. It is clear and unambiguous.