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by gmat_perfect » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:38 pm
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

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by SeemaSkl » Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:07 pm
IMO e.

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by madhukumar_v » Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:52 pm
This question is similar to the question in OG; I dont remember exactly, but I remember that you need an appositive to further define the sentence after comma using the same word (Look for word tissue in OG10). Only A, B WILL fit the bill. In A you have they-pronoun error which can also refer to yellow jackets, so remains B.

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by paes » Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:08 am
IMO B

C, D : 'which' is wrong
E : modifier issue. 'living' will modify to Yellow jackets
while we need to modify to wasps in general.

A, B remains

A : again modifier issue for society. [ ...they consist' wrong ]

B : 'society consisting' is the right usage