Just a question
By uramit2003
@uramit2003 (898)
India
December 12, 2011 5:09am CST
Please find the sentences below. There is a grammatical mistake in a portion(starting and ending with underscore). The correct structure is provided in the options : Could you please figure out which is the correct answer and why?
A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago,
the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, _believed to be the_ largest flying
creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
12 Dec 11
I believe the answer would be (E) which is believed to be, because it is the flying reptile which is believed to be the largest flying... and not only the wingspan.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
12 Dec 11
But it was the animal, not the wingspan which 'is believed to be the largest flying reptile'. Which ever option you choose, it's not good English. Appending 'and' doesn't make it much better but at least tends to separate one statement from the other.
As I pointed out, rewriting is really the only option.
