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Hi Guest, let us look at 2 aspects of this sentence.

1) Subject - The author wishes to discuss about scholars, what they thought about native american literatures and what they understand about that now. Hence, the subject of the sentence should be Scholars. D and E are out.

2) Parallelism - for this sentence to have a 'that' between 'thought' and 'native', we would have probably required a 'that' between 'understand' and 'this'. In the GMAT, parallel structures are considered a priority.

B is grammatically incorrect. Use of 'had thought' in C is again incorrect as we are not talking about 2 actions happening in the past in a sequence.

A is hence the best choice. Hope this clarifies.

It makes sense when you said that it would need a "that" between "understand" and "this" if we were to put a "that" between "thought" and "native".

I could understand why other choices were wrong but its just this "that" was confusing. but now it looks better.

Thanks!

you are welcome.

thanks for helping, viksnme!

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Hi Stacy,
I am not sure from the discussion why 'B' is wrong. Could you please explain it in detail?
Thanks

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