OG11-Verble Review 第三题 大家侃侃

3. Native American burial sites dating back 5，000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time
    were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.

(A)   were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people

(B)   had been part of a widespread culture of people who were Algonquian-speaking

(C)   were people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

(D)   had been people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

(E)   were a people which had been part of a widespread，Algonquian-speaking culture

D  Had been is an incorrect verb tense，suggesting that the Native Americans were no longer part of the culture；wordy and imprecise．

C与D选项比较仅仅是verb tense不同,然

 Algonquian-speaking should refer to people，not culture

是属于imprecise这一类吗?

C D两项共同的错误：

1 wordy，residents当然是people，所以people who were三个单词犯了Wordy的错误。

2 修饰语位置不对（Rhetorical Construction）Algonquian-speaking 修饰的people，只有人才能speak a language。