With Arcsun Corporation announcing their new home video syst

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With Arcsun Corporation announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade their systems to compete with them.

(A) With Arcsun Corporation announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade their systems to compete with them
(B) With Arcsun Corporation announcing its new home video system, Playlite must upgrade their systems in competition with it
(C) Because Arcsun Corporation is announcing their new home video system, Playlite has to upgrade its own systems by competing with them
(D) Since Arcsun Corporation is announcing their new home video system, Playlite is to upgrade their systems by competing with them
(E) Since Arcsun Corporation has announced its new home video system, Playlite must upgrade its own systems to compete with Arcsun

I'm confused between Band D Can any experts help?

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by ErikaPrepScholar » Tue Jan 16, 2018 6:12 am
Quick solution for this one: we see a lot of switching back and forth between "its" and "their" in the answer choices, where these pronouns refer to "Arcsun" and "Playlite". Arcsun and Playlite (along with other company names) are both singular nouns, so we need to match them with singular pronouns. A and C refer to Arcsun with "their", A, C, and D refer to Arcsun with "them", and A, B, and D refer to Playlite with "their". This leaves E as our only remaining option.
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