POE analysis confirmation
Since 1986, when the Department of Labor began to allow investment officers’ fees to be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations began paying their investment advisers a small basic fee, with a contract promising higher fees if the managers perform well.
(A) investment officers’ fees to be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations began
(B) investment officers’ fees to be based on the performance of the funds they manage, several corporations began
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(C) that fees of investment officers be based on how the funds they manage perform, several corporations have begun
(D) fees of investment officers to be based on the performance of the funds they manage, several corporations have begun
(E) that investment officers’ fees be based on the performance of the funds they manage, several corporations began
OD is D.
I chose D solely because the sentence starts with “Since” that a perfect tense necessary in this construction.
C is unidiomatic as allow is always accompanied by an infinite. — Is my reasoning correct?
“allows that” is incorrect. Some verbs always take the infinitive and not a that clause. (You should know that allow is not a bossy verb and cannot take the command subjunctive “be based on the funds …”)
thanks. This makes the distinction clearer between the use of “that” and “to”