Ron sir
can u pls explain what does "almost all females" in option C refers to ????
vinaykumarbhatia Wrote:Ron sir
can u pls explain what does "almost all females" in option C refers to ????
jingtengliu Wrote:1.Could anyone tell me where is the conj in this sentence?
2.Where is the Verb in the first sentence(Yellow jackets....social wasps)?
jnelson0612 Wrote:sidd.shah123 Wrote:How can we eliminate A and E ? Why are they wrong?
Check the second post in this thread, by "Guest", for an explanation of what is wrong with A.
For E, check the parallelism--"society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists . . ."
anubhavgilhotra Wrote:I have question about connecting two independent clauses without the use of conjunction:
Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the world’s social wasps, (Complete Clause)
wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females"”the queen and her sterile female workers.( Clause)
I can see we can connect two independent clauses without the conjunction but under what circumstances we can do that.
jp.jprasanna Wrote:living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized and consists of almost all
The beetle feeds ....... and it runs.......
Here the "it" is considered redundant.... hence wrong?
georgepaul0071987 Wrote:Is there anything wrong with the usage of 'living' in option (E) ?
This modifier doesn't really describe the effect of the entire preceding clause right ?
As per the original sentence we just need a modifier that just describes 'social wasps' right ?
If we consider this sentence :
Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.
In this case 'outnumbering' doesn't really describe the previous clause , so the usage of 'ing' modifier is incorrect here .
Can we apply this reasoning to the "wasps" question ?
RonPurewal Wrote:judyyang8888 Wrote:hi,
(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
can anyone throw some light on the "which" in choice C and D? Thanks.
make sure that you know those are wrong answers!
in fact, these instances of "which" are one of the reasons why those choices are wrong -- "which" should refer to the noun or noun phrase preceding the comma, but the nouns preceding the commas in those two choices don't make any sense in context.
vijay19839 Wrote:Ron
I think 'which' in options C & D refer to Social wasps. Why is the usage of which wrong in these options?
bish Wrote:I don't understand why is C wrong -
"which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all"