A difficult and confusing writing (Grammar) question

Test Preparation
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<p>Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player (that they recognized as) a world champion, began playing amateur tennis in the 1940's</p>

<p>The question tells me to replace the sentence in brackets</p>

<p>I chose: to be recognized as
but the correct answer is: that was recognized to be</p>

<p>I can understand why it could be "that was recognized..." instead of "to be recognized..." because "player" is a functionary and so "a player that ..." is OKAY.</p>

<p>but how does the end of the correct answer make any sense? "recognized to be" is awkward. Should be "Recognized as" in my opinion</p>

<p>Also, what makes my answer incorrect?</p>

<p>please be concise </p>

<p>x thanks : )</p>

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<p>I answered on the other thread but I’ll ask again: is this from the Official SAT Guide? B/c I can’t believe they’d go with “that was recognized to be” for a couple of reasons: 1) it’s unnecessarily wordy; 2) the pronoun for a person would be “who,” not “that.” Are you sure you’re looking at the correct answer?</p>

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<p>Yes… Unfortunately</p>

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<p>Bad question if what you have provided is the actual sentence and allowable answers. Either answer is gramatically correct. Your answer actually sounds better than the one the guide book provides. You should note that wrong answers in guide books do occur.</p>

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<p>I agree, “to be recognized as” seems like the correct answer to me. Can you post the test, section, and question numbers, so that someone with a new version of the Blue Book can check to see if the correct answer was changed?</p>

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<p>I feel it may be because the answer you gave is passive, while the given answer is active.</p>

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<p>@kns1444, the given answer isn’t active either. What page is this on in the Blue Book?</p>

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<p>Yeah, hard to believe this is a BB question. Something’s hinky here.</p>