challenger63 wrote:Even today, lions can be seen ruling the African plains, hunting almost any animal that crosses its path and intimidating all but the most intrepid hunters.

(A) lions can be seen ruling the African plains
(B) lions are able to be seem ruling the African plains
(C) lions rule the African plains
(D) the lion rules the African plains
(E) the lion species rules the African plains

OA will be later.[/spoiler]

This question is about parallelism, signaled by the "and" at the end of the sentence. There's no Oxford comma before the "and," so we know there are only two items in this list. That means we aren't going to match up ruling/hunting/intimidating. So the sentence needs a main verb that we'll modify with hunting/intimidating.

The pronoun issue, "its," means our antecedent needs to be the singular "the lion." There's no reason to have the word "species" in there, so the answer is (E).

-t

Thanks Aman! You're right!

-t

Hey Challenger,

The answer is definitely not C! The pronoun disagreement between "lions" and "its" is no good!

-t