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GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Five hundred million different species of living creatures

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TheRzS wrote:

Hi sayantanc2k,

Could you please advise why E is preferred over C?

Thanks
RzS


Two problems:

1. The passive constructionX is vanished implies that the act of vanishing was performed on X by someone else - this usage is not correct. The creatures vanished, not that they are vanished (by someone else).

2. Starting a sentence with a verb is not a standard practice. Option C has a more standard construction: starting with a prepositional phrase modifier, then the subject and finally the verb.
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