Complete the sentence: The director insisted on ______ every international grant proposal prior to institutional submission.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. reviewing
- Step 1: Identify the prepositional construction: 'insisted on' terminates with the preposition 'on'.
- Step 2: Apply grammatical rule: Prepositions must govern a noun, pronoun, or gerund (-ing form).
- Step 3: Select the gerund: 'reviewing'.
Answer
reviewing.
Why not the others: 'review' is bare infinitive; 'reviewed' is past participle; 'to review' is full infinitive, none of which can serve as the object of preposition 'on'.
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