gmat740 wrote: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

Oa- B
IMO E : Why do we need wasps to precede living?

scoobydooby wrote:in A, guess it is not proper to use "where" to refer to society. "in which" would have been better.

clock60 wrote:hi gmatapril
Living here for sure modifiers Yellow Jackets, as well as preceding clause and there is no mistake,
the problem with E that the rest of the sentence is not ||

E. living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all
it consists is not || with cooperative and organized
better version must looks like
society that is highly cooperative, organized and consisting of almost.....

GMATGuruNY wrote:

gmat740 wrote: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

Oa- B
IMO E : Why do we need wasps to precede living?

In C and D, it is unclear what noun is being replaced by the pronoun which. Eliminate C and D.

In E, the pronoun it is ambiguous. Eliminate E.

In A, the pronoun they suggests that the wasps consist almost entirely of females; the intended meaning is that the society consists almost entirely of females. Also, where should used to refer only to a place. Eliminate A.

The correct answer is B.

In B, wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females is a resumptive modifier. A resumptive modifier:

-- repeats a key word in the sentence
-- adds additional information about that key word
-- often includes the pronoun that
-- usually appears at the end of the sentence

Hope this helps!

GMATMadeEasy wrote:@Mitch : For options C and D you have mentioned that "which" does not have a clear noun to refer to .

However, OG explanation does not mention this. Could we safely remove answer choices with such usage of which ? I was not sure when i did this question, so want to confirm.

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

GMATGuruNY wrote:

navami wrote:

GMATGuruNY wrote:

gmat740 wrote: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

Oa- B
IMO E : Why do we need wasps to precede living?

In C and D, it is unclear what noun is being replaced by the pronoun which. Eliminate C and D.

In E, the pronoun it is ambiguous. Eliminate E.

In A, the pronoun they suggests that the wasps consist almost entirely of females; the intended meaning is that the society consists almost entirely of females. Also, where should used to refer only to a place. Eliminate A.

The correct answer is B.

In B, wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females is a resumptive modifier. A resumptive modifier:

-- repeats a key word in the sentence
-- adds additional information about that key word
-- often includes the pronoun that
-- usually appears at the end of the sentence

Hope this helps!

Can't It of option E, refer to the nearest noun that is society in this case? GMATGuru please explain.

A subject pronoun (such as it, which is the subject of the verb consists) should not be used to refer to the object of a preposition (in the phrase living in a society, society is the object of the preposition in).

E also lacks parallelism: that is highly cooperative, organized is not parallel with it consists. To maintain parallelism, E should say:

...a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and consisting of...