rbansal6 wrote:
I too have some doubts about this questions -
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
1. Why is it referring to creature and not its wings? And that is ambiguous ?- As per my present knowledge both "it" and "that" should refer to creature as it is coming after "and" which makes them point to subject.
2. If you say we need to have believed to have been because past participle had is present in previous sentence...we also have "world has ever seen" to make it past participle..we don't need "have been"..
3. have should refer to plural noun..what is it?
hope i get reply to my stupid questions..![:roll:]( "Rolling Eyes")
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
1. Why is it referring to creature and not its wings? And that is ambiguous ?- As per my present knowledge both "it" and "that" should refer to creature as it is coming after "and" which makes them point to subject.
2. If you say we need to have believed to have been because past participle had is present in previous sentence...we also have "world has ever seen" to make it past participle..we don't need "have been"..
3. have should refer to plural noun..what is it?
hope i get reply to my stupid questions..
@RBansal - I have marked above in Bold & RED the Subject that we are talking bout - Now if now when you try to read through the options A, B &C, can you see how in option C we have the structure such that we first described the length of the wing-span, & went ON TO ALSO MENTION that it is believed to be the longest etc etc.... This "continuing on to explain other features" of the subject is what is necessary to remove ambiguity.
Option A, B, D & E also are in the wrong Tense (Believed to be = Present).
Hope it helps.!