Sentence Correction

The mansion owner asked his landscape architect not to hire professional gardeners, but to find volunteers from the people who worked at the estate who were willing to work on the weekends to make extra money.

A. volunteers from the people who worked at the estate who were willing
B. volunteers from among the people whom worked at the estate who were willing
C. volunteers from between the people who worked at the estate whom were willing
D. volunteers from between the people whom worked at the estate whom were willing
E. volunteers from among the people who worked at the estate who were willing


Query :
[spoiler]Which phrase is correct "volunteers from the people" or "volunteers from among the people"
"who worked at the estate who were willing" vs "whom worked at the estate who were willing"
Please justify your choice with explanation.
OA E.[/spoiler]

Target2009 wrote:The mansion owner asked his landscape architect not to hire professional gardeners, but to find volunteers from the people who worked at the estate who were willing to work on the weekends to make extra money.

A. volunteers from the people who worked at the estate who were willing
B. volunteers from among the people whom worked at the estate who were willing
C. volunteers from between the people who worked at the estate whom were willing
D. volunteers from between the people whom worked at the estate whom were willing
E. volunteers from among the people who worked at the estate who were willing


Query :
[spoiler]Which phrase is correct "volunteers from the people" or "volunteers from among the people"
"who worked at the estate who were willing" vs "whom worked at the estate who were willing"
Please justify your choice with explanation. OA after some discussion.[/spoiler]

E should be the correct answer.

B and D are incorrect because both use "whom".
C is incorrect because it uses between (so does D as well)

that leaves A and E

the correct construction would be "to find volunteers from among the people". "to find volunteers from the people" implies as though the task is to ask the people who would like to volunteer (in true sense even this meaning is not conveyed correctly).

"volunteers from among the people" and "who worked at the estate who were willing" ---correct

IMO : E

Among is used to refer to more than two people. the use of 'from the' is correct when referring to single entity. eg.

A shift from the dangerous present course is possible.
Get me the book from the shelf.

In present context, 'from the' is used to refer to many volunteers from people (a plural entity), hence use of 'among' is must. 'Who' acts as subject for verb ' worked' whereas 'whom' is only used in subjective case.

thanx

hows PR free CAT by the way

1) Do they provide explanations for answer at the end of the section
2) I heard Quant is easier than GMATPrep quant
3) Hows the verbal when compared to MGMAT or GMATPrep??

prachich1987 wrote:hows PR free CAT by the way

1) Do they provide explanations for answer at the end of the section
2) I heard Quant is easier than GMATPrep quant
3) Hows the verbal when compared to MGMAT or GMATPrep??

Quant is my strength so I find is easy every where. But yes compare to MGMAT its little easy.
Verbal hummm.. need less to say, my weakness. To me it looks almost equivalent or may very little easier than MGMAT & GMATPrep but surely easier than Veritas Free CAT. Vertias RC & CR were much more difficult than any of the test I taken so far.

prachich1987 wrote:"volunteers from among the people" and "who worked at the estate who were willing" ---correct

IMO : E

Isn't "from among " sounds awkward. preposition after preposition ??

Didnt anybody find anything wrong with E."who were willing" seems to modify "estate"

mundasingh123 wrote:Didnt anybody find anything wrong with E."who were willing" seems to modify "estate"

IMO E, wats OA??

I would say Princeton quant is really easy compared to the other tests/material...

I am not sure how trustworthy the scores are but postings on the net do seem to indicate that the overall scores are somewhat accurate... I am a bit surprised though

I have attempted 2 CD tests so far and the quant is considerably easier than the other material. Also, the tests seem to draw from a small pool of questions so some of the quant questions are repeated as I think the pool of high diff Qs seems to be quite small

OA Updated in Original Post.

If you are finding volunteers you either need to find them from a place (such as a highschool) or from between or among a group of people.

here this question is about finding them from among a group of people thus we need to determine whether to use between or among. This is a quesiton of number - you choose between two things and you choose among three or more things. Because people who work at the estate is generally more than two (and you would normally name the two if there were only two) the appropriate choice would be "among."

Then the question is who vs. whom - the easy rule of thumb is that you use who whenever you would use "he" in the sentence and whom whenever you would use "him." In this sentence we would say "he worked at the estate" not "him worked at the estate" and therefore "who would be your correct choice - which leaves you with E.

Becky

Thanks tpr-becky
nicely explained !!!

volunteers from among the people who worked at the estate who were willing

Is n't it missing "and" between "who worked at the estate" and "who were willing to bla bla" ?