The majority of the deaths resulted from people ______ trampled underfoot or
crushed against barriers in the stadium.
A.be
B.been
C.being
D.to be
這是指考題
可以解釋一下為何答案是C嗎
感謝~

因為前面的 resulted from... (from 是介係詞)

people (who were) trampled的分詞構句

這不叫分詞構句，這是關係子句減化為分詞片語

形容詞子句，變分詞。大部分Being可以省略

這是動名詞片語，不是關係子句減化的分詞片語dunchee.blogspot.com/2016/04/tmpg.html

沒錯，仔細了解句意，確實是「動名詞片語」。不過這裡我會習慣用people's being trampled...