看OG-SC的问题 请大家明白的帮忙解释一下，谢谢！

翁羽凌虚

17.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

其中对E有一个解释：Choice E displays inconsistent tenses and an error of pronoun reference, people which. 我的疑问在于，a people里面的people不是表示民族吗，表示民族也不可以用which来引导吗？

翁羽凌虚

首先我觉得过去完成时态是没有必要的，题中indicate that 只是在陈述一个过去的事实而已，没有对现在的影响，更没有过去时（did) 出现，所以indicate 后面再加had done 就出现了时间上的空缺。

然后，就想大家说的people这样的词只能用who/whose来指代，相似的词还有clan(家族）。

-- by 会员 ruirui_hsu (2011/3/1 13:08:18)

哦 我知道了 谢谢了

翁羽凌虚

修饰人的一概用who

-- by 会员 zyjing (2011/3/1 10:38:21)

或者whose，这题用who，但是用who很累赘~所以可以直接选A

-- by 会员 zyjing (2011/3/1 10:38:54)

谢谢

翁羽凌虚

是这样的，新东方老师讲过一个原则，就是A be B结构，中间那个是be动词，前后的A,B必须是同质的东西才可比，我觉得这里的residents和people并不同质，居民和民族不同质，只能说residents were from a people或part of a people，至于og对那个的解释我不太知道

-- by 会员 emilyz0301 (2011/2/28 23:34:58)

恩 有道理 谢谢啊

ruirui_hsu

首先我觉得过去完成时态是没有必要的，题中indicate that 只是在陈述一个过去的事实而已，没有对现在的影响，更没有过去时（did) 出现，所以indicate 后面再加had done 就出现了时间上的空缺。

然后，就想大家说的people这样的词只能用who/whose来指代，相似的词还有clan(家族）。

zyjing

修饰人的一概用who

-- by 会员 zyjing (2011/3/1 10:38:21)

或者whose，这题用who，但是用who很累赘~所以可以直接选A

zyjing

修饰人的一概用who

emilyz0301

E选项显然改变了句意呀

emilyz0301

是这样的，新东方老师讲过一个原则，就是A be B结构，中间那个是be动词，前后的A,B必须是同质的东西才可比，我觉得这里的residents和people并不同质，居民和民族不同质，只能说residents were from a people或part of a people，至于og对那个的解释我不太知道