Idioms

[tanay-shah]

A marine biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has collected specimens of several microscopic sea worms, ones that she believes are a species never before seen at close range.

A) that she believes are
B) that she believes them to be
C) she believes that they are of
D) she believes that are
E) she believes to be of

---I marked A assuming that ones should be referring to "sea worms", since it must act as noun modifier and be placed right next to the noun being modified-according to the touch rule.
But the correct answer is E. I am guessing that is because "ones" is referring to specimen and not sea worms?
Please clarify....
Thanks

[arnabgangully]

Actually this question is classified as Idioms type

A option is may be correct if you remove the Ones in the question,but due to ones and to preserve the idiomatic nature of the question the E option is the only correct one

[tim]

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