papgust wrote:In A, it is not clear who is prohibiting what from doing so and so. Moreover, "its" can refer to either company or employee.
And, the use of prohibit in A is unidiomatic.

mehravikas wrote:If prohibit can use the subjunctive form "that...be" - I would say A is correct, if not B, D are out because of singular / plural issue E is passive...so we are left with C.

papgust wrote:I shouldn't have mentioned that point as all choices are having that. Anyway, to me it is still a pronoun referent error. But other choices are awkward in some way or the other and the best choice is C which is having only that pronoun error. Pronoun errors could be taken as a secondary error. If you have more errors in other choices, then you could tolerate a choice which only has a pronoun error and keeps the intended meaning intact.

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:On the GMAT, gender bearing nouns will always take a gender. The GMAT is not concerned with political correctness and you will never see someone with unidentified gender referred to as "them" or "it".


Accordingly, the only parent noun with which "its" could possibly agree is the company, so no problem on that account.

Idiomatically, we prohibit someone from doing something; we don't use the subjunctive for negative action verbs. "Prohibiting that" is non-idiomatic.

mehravikas wrote:C also doesn't use the correct idiom..its missing "from"

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:On the GMAT, gender bearing nouns will always take a gender. The GMAT is not concerned with political correctness and you will never see someone with unidentified gender referred to as "them" or "it".


Accordingly, the only parent noun with which "its" could possibly agree is the company, so no problem on that account.

Idiomatically, we prohibit someone from doing something; we don't use the subjunctive for negative action verbs. "Prohibiting that" is non-idiomatic.