Question

In the question below, four different ways of writing a sentence (THE CAPITALISED PART) are indicated.
Choose the best way of writing the sentence: According to anthropologists, early religious beliefs were
probably not borne of a desire to seek comfort after death but WAS MORE LIKELY TO BEGIN AS A WAY to
explain the mysterious phenomenon of the natural world.
Select one:
a. was more likely to begin as a way
b. were more likely a way
C. were more likely to have begun as a way
d. began, more than likely, as a way

Answer 1

Answer:

were more likely to have begun as a way

Answer 2

Answer:

WERE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE BEGUN AS A WAY (C)