difference between of & of the

[vivekkapoor73]

Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.


A. Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth,nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.

B. Nearly 99 percent of five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth have vanished.

C. Vanished are nearly 99 percent of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth.

D. Of five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them have vanished.

E. Of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent have vanished.

Hi Ron,
Please correct my understanding for B, It seems that 99% of species only appeared on earth but intended meaning is 100% appeared of which 99% vanished.

Please comment on difference between D & E

thanks

[RonPurewal]

Please read the forum rules: read-before-you-post-general-verbal-folder-guidelines-t2718.html

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If you don't know the original source, then i'm sorry, but you can't post the problem here.

This rule applies to MGMAT problems as well. There are over three thousand problems in our database, so we can't possibly recognize all of them.
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Please cite the original source. Thanks.

[vivekkapoor73]

Sorry but I have seen this questions in other two forums citing this as GMAT prep. I was not sure whether hence posted in General verbal forum

thanks

[RonPurewal]

Sorry -- if you don't know the original source for sure, then we can't use the problem. Copyright issues.

The general folder is NOT the "I'm not sure of the source" folder.
It's the "I know the source, I've checked the forum rules, and it's not a banned source" folder.

If you can verify that this problem is indeed from the GMAT PREP software, then please re-post your question in the appropriate folder.

Thanks.