Question

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

Answer 1

The correct option is B Wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of

The major error in the sentence seems to be the use of 'consist' beside 'they' which clearly refers to wasps makes it seem as if we are talking about the consistency of the wasps when in fact it is the consistency of the wasp society that we are talking about. 'Wasp' is the incorrect subject for the verb 'consist'. This eliminates A. In C, 'almost all female' is unclear as to what it's referring to. In D and E we have a lack of parallelism- '...highly cooperative, organized...' is not parallel to 'it is almost entirely' in D and in E, 'highly cooperative, organized...' is not parallel to 'it consists'. Thus B comes out as the correct answer as it rectifies the original errors and does not make any new errors of its own.