Sentence Correction

Q25. Based on accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of all female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C, worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, "the good goddess".

(A) Based on accounts of various ancient writers,
(B) Basing it on various ancient writers' accounts,
(C) With accounts of various ancient writers used for a basis,
(D) By the accounts of various ancient writers they used,
(E) Using accounts of various ancient writers,

The right answer is (E). However i selected (A) because in my opinion underlined phrase is a modifier that functions as an adjective to describe a noun that immediately follows it (scholars)

Please clear this confusion


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