Sentence Correction

Hi there,

I didn't succeed to get the right difference between A and B. OA is A


A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.

(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world's five billion people

Hi Xbond,

answer B is wrong for a couple of different reasons...

1. the change in word order changes the original meaning of the sentence. In the original phrasing the direct object of the verb contend refers to the thousands of languages. in B, the the direct object refers to people.
2. in choice B "of which all" is wordy.

many thks dude