Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: After the Arab conquest of Egypt in A.D. 640, Arabic became the domina

Here's the officialexplanation provided by the GMAC for this question:

According to the sentence, after 640 AD, Arabic became the dominant language in Egypt. It replaced older languages and writing systems. The verb became refers to that distant past, and the phrase replacing … writing systems modifies the nounArabic, the subject of the sentence. The adjective older correctly modifies both languages and writingsystems.

OptionA: Correct. The sentence states a historical fact with clarity, precision, and correct grammar and usage, as explainedabove.

OptionB: This answer choice has two flaws. It uses the word systems, which adds nothing significant tolanguages. The clause that were older modifies languagesystems only but should also modify writing systems; it represents no improvement over the given sentence, which appliedolder logically to both languages and writingsystems.

OptionC: The present tensebecomes is inconsistent both with the past tense replaced
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