Sentence Correction

After having had Ann Boleyn beheaded, the next day King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour.

A) same as question.

B)After having had Ann Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour the next day.

C) having had Ann Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour the next day.

D)On the day after he had Ann Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour.

E)On the day after having had Ann Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane Seymour.

All of these choices are awkward, and I doubt you see anything similar on the GMAT. If I had to pick one though, I would choose D. The use of the present perfect continuous tense is never seen on the GMAT and I think its incorrect in the context of the sentence.

osirus0830 wrote:All of these choices are awkward, and I doubt you see anything similar on the GMAT. If I had to pick one though, I would choose D. The use of the present perfect continuous tense is never seen on the GMAT and I think its incorrect in the context of the sentence.

You always stand ahead Osirus! Thank You.

Answer is indeed D.

But, what made you reject E?

"On the day after having had" is way too awkward to ever be correct on the GMAT. This may be something that you won't recognize though. With linguistics, American English would never word something like that. It is too pretentious and awkward, so I eliminated it as soon as I read it.