sukrant26 wrote:The lady I bought the car from is soon leaving for the U.S.
(A) The lady I bought the car from is soon leaving for the U.S.
(B) The lady I bought the car from will soon have left for the U.S.
(C) The lady whom bought the car from is soon leaving for the U.S.
(D) The lady from whom I bought the car is soon leaving for the U.S.
(E) The lady is soon leaving for the U.S. from whom I bought the car.
Is the expression "The lady I bought the car from" is preferable over "The lady from whom I bough the car". Please explain
the construction in choice d -
from whom... - is most certainly preferable to those found in the other choices:
* it's simply considered better writing;
* it's generally considered undesirable, although not strictly 'wrong', to have prepositions hanging at the ends of phrases (the lady i bought the car
from).
if you want proof that the gmat feels this way, take a look at problem #16 in the purple OG verbal supplement (i'm not sure whether i'm allowed to reproduce problems from that source on this forum); note the answer explanations, which leave no doubt that the gmat prefers the same sort of construction used in choice (d) above: 'collateral against which ... ' is considered much better than 'collateral to borrow against'.
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incidentally:
i'm not sure which source this problem comes from (or, i should say, 'the source from which this problem comes')
but ... note that
the gmat NEVER uses the first or second person. all of the sentences - and i mean all of them - are in the third person. so your time would be better spent studying sentence that are likewise in the third person, as opposed to first-person examples such as this one.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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