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The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia, were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Captain James Cook, by whom they were named supposedly because its sheer wet rocks glistered like glass.

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D. Who so named them supposedly because their




The subject of the sentence is "Glass House Mountains" and not "James Cook".

Hence, modifier cannot relate if the subject is not doing the action. The naming is done by
James Cook , but James Cook is not the subject and hence cannot suite.

Note:
Since VS Because
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