In Bananas Web Designs, much of the regional developers'

[mondegreen]

In Bananas Web Designs, much of the regional developers' creativity was utilized for the building of the company website and when they designed and implemented the back-end server that stored it.

(A) much of the regional developers’ creativity was utilized for the building of the company website and when they designed and implemented the back-end server that stored it

(B) much of the regional developers' creativity was utilized on the building of the company website and on design and implementation of the back-end server in which it was stored

(C) much of the regional developers’ creativity was utilized on the building of the company website as well as designing and implementing the back-end server in which they were stored

(D) building the company website accounted for much of the regional developers' creativity, and also designing and implementing the back-end server storing them

(E) the creating of the company website accounted for much of the regional developers' creativity as well as design and implementation of the back-end server that stored it

Hello,I have read the forum guidelines and I really HOPE that I have not done anything wrong this time. Source-GMAT Pill
OA:B

I just want to know if my train of thoughts is running in the right direction. I eliminated option E, because if we ignore the prepositional phrase "of the company website", the verb-ed modifier(accounted) should modify the immediate noun(creating , which is not a noun). Is this the correct reason to eliminate E? Instead,noun(creation) should have been used.Is this correct?

Thanks.

Thanks.

[RonPurewal]

well, technically, "the creating" would also be a noun. but, yes, you are correct that the dedicated noun form (creation) is the preferred form if you have to make this kind of decision.

by the way, this problem is purely a rip-off of OG12 #46 (also OG13 #46). the writers basically just copied that problem and changed a few of the specific words. (they didn't even bother to rearrange the order of the answer choices... lol.)

so, if you have the OG, this problem has zero value. just go to the OG and look at that problem instead.