Regardless of the issues discussed by the manager, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.

(A)the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.
(B)in the first place, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and begun to argue over matters of minor relevance which were hindering the project's development.
(C)the team went back conveniently to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.
(D)irrelevant matters were discussed by the team which went back to its old ways that were hindering the development of the project.
(E)the team conveniently went back to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.

harsh.champ wrote:Regardless of the issues discussed by the manager, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.

(A)the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.
(B)in the first place, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and begun to argue over matters of minor relevance which were hindering the project's development.
(C)the team went back conveniently to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.
(D)irrelevant matters were discussed by the team which went back to its old ways that were hindering the development of the project.
(E)the team conveniently went back to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.


The ans. is E.

harsh.champ wrote:Regardless of the issues discussed by the manager, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place.

(A)the team conveniently went back to their old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place. - 'team' is singular so we need 'its'

(B)in the first place, the team conveniently went back to their old ways and begun to argue over matters of minor relevance which were hindering the project's development. - 'begun' is wrong tense, we need 'began' here.

(C)the team went back conveniently to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place. - Awkward

(D)irrelevant matters were discussed by the team which went back to its old ways that were hindering the development of the project. - meaning of the sentence is changed.

(E)the team conveniently went back to its old ways and began arguing over irrelevant matters that were hindering the development of the project in the first place. - Correct