Terrible Writing MC

anon4382169
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:25:21 +0000

When Catherine the Great had a magnificent dinner service of Sevres porcelain for her, she was scandalized by its great cost, which became the subject of prolonged controversy.


(A) which became
(B) so it was to be
(C) with a result that it was destined to become
(D) therefore becoming
(E) consequently it would become

I honestly did think any of the answers worked, so I randomly chose (E). The answer is (A). Why?