OG 16 112 Yellow jacket

白冬冬

Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of females—the queen and her sterile female workers.

(A) wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of

(B) wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of

(C) which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all

(D) which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely

(E) living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

关于A, OG结实只有一句 － they refers to wasps, is an incorrect subject for consist.
Why?   Isn't it correct for: The throwing events consist of javelin,discus,hammer and shot.  ?
请教consist of 的用法， 感谢！！

医生吃鱼

用法：A consists of B，B组成A。
该例：society consists almost entirely of females
society才是consist的主语。

白冬冬

顶啊。。。。。。。。。

415lethe

首先根据代词they 可以指代wasps 或者 species 指代不清排除ACD
E中and前后不平行 而且it指代不清晰 前面有多个单数名词

volcanos7

elusive 发表于 2016-3-19 16:34
B里面consisting修饰社会，A里面consist是they的动词。they=虫子，≠社会，所以虫子组成了大部分的女性
A的 ...

请问一下，一般逗号后面接ing形式比如，making 这种类型的，是不是意味着这个ing形式的词修饰逗号之前的那个词而不是句子主语呢

volcanos7

elusive 发表于 2016-3-19 17:00
这个要看具体语境。比如说
Neuroscientists,having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty  ...

谢谢谢谢，解释得很清晰，感谢

volcanos7

elusive 发表于 2016-3-21 03:31
又找到一道题，
The rain has flooded drainage canals in many orange-tree groves, which has caused t ...

哇，谢谢大神，我才看见，这里的ing也是修饰主语rain的吧。。。请问一下有没有可能修饰前面整个句子呢