In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.

of Resident Owners Inc. did not file a notice of appeal with our court. Therefore, this issue is moot because we cannot exercise jurisdiction over them. Accordingly, we affirm the decision of the trial court. CONCLUSION For the above stated reasons, the decisions of the trial court are AFFIRMED. SHORT and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur. 1 . However, we note the current version prohibits "actions to recover damages based upon or arising out of the defective or unsafe condition of an improvement to real property" that arise more than eight years after substantial completion of the improvement. S.C.Code Ann. 15-3-640 (Supp.2009). 2 . Any res judicata argument in relation to Judge Few's order is not preserved. Hopkins v. Harrell, 352 S.C. 517, 522 n. 1, 574 S.E.2d 747, 750 n. 1 (Ct.App.2002) (<HOLDING>). 3 . Several copies of the record on appeal
Holding statements: (A) holding issue cannot be raised for the first time on appeal but must have been raised to and ruled upon by the trial judge to be preserved for appellate review (B) holding issues not raised to and ruled upon by the trial court are not preserved for appellate review (C) holding that issues not raised to or ruled upon by the lower court are not preserved for appellate review (D) holding the issue of recusal of the trial judge to be preserved for appellate review must be raised in the trial court (E) holding an issue must be raised to and ruled upon by the trial court in order to be preserved for review
(E)