Expression

[sukrant26]

[u]The lady I bought the car from is soon leaving for the U.S.[/u]

(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

[ritz]

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

very interesting question..
i would go with D, because i think we need to separate out the Subject & the Modifier, & whom does that quite beautifully...
what's the right answer?
Ritz

[lalitgmat]

When there is NO punctuation mark ( in this comma ), does not (D) sound like the CAR is movinf to US in lieu of Lady.
I feel (E) is better.

[ritz]

When there is NO punctuation mark ( in this comma ), does not (D) sound like the CAR is movinf to US in lieu of Lady.
I feel (E) is better.

E is definitely not the answer as it seems to be modifying US.
The lady is soon leaving for the U.S from whom I bought the car.
see a parellal here..
the lady is soon meeting XYZ from whom I bought the car.
here lady is going to meet XYZ, a person, whom i am modifying by telling the readers that i bought the car from XYZ.
So going by this, E can not be correct.

what is the right answer Sukrant?

regards
Ritz

[sandeepdeb]

I cannot see anything wrong with the actual line. the first option seems to be correct.

[sukrant26]

OA IS 'A'

[lunarpower]

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.

[Stuart@KaplanGMAT]

Please post the source of the question.

As Ron noted, "The lady from whom I bought the car" is 100% superior to the other choices.

Also as Ron noted, you won't see the first person on GMAT SC questions. I'm also pretty sure that I've never seen a question that tested dangling prepositions, which is what this question is all about (and if (a) is the accredited choice, then the question writer didn't even properly address that issue).

[rey.fernandez]

Dangling prepositions is something up with which the GMAT will not put.

Rey

[sukrant26]

it was a question from a practice GMAT test on

www.crack-gmat.com