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Sentence Correction (SC) | A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million

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GMATNinja AjiteshArun I have a question on this - I do not think that option A is incorrect because of a modifier issue because past participles do not necessarily need to touch the noun they want to modify, I eliminated C because of the meaning issue that the two clauses are independent, however, the second clause is actually help explain the first one i.e. why were they believed to be the largest flying creature - because of wing size and hence thought connecting with a conjunction would convey the wrong meaning here.

Moreover, even if I consider the fact that believed to be is used for living things, please explain what is wrong with this sentence - "My grandmother, believed to be a demi-God, died at the age of 65."
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Statistics : Posted by priyadabas01 • on 02 Mar 2004, 09:46 • Replies 51 • Views 83524



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