abhishekmayank wrote:
How "from which" is appropriate with the "base camp" in option A. it looks like they "used" the camp to hunt down wild animals. Should not it be "from where" ?
This is a good question--there's a lot of which/where/when trickery in Sentence Correction.
The basic principle at work here is that the
preposition + which modifier form is extremely versatile. Consider these two examples:
I have never been back to the city where I was born.
I have never been back to the city in which I was born.The first sentence might seem like the natural choice, as
where can definitely be used to refer to the place noun
city. However, the second sentence is
also correct, because it's fair to say that I was born
in the city. To put it another way, because the
which in the second sentence can sensibly stand in for
the city, which also happens to be the nearest preceding noun, it's perfectly acceptable.
So too in this question's answer choice A. Because the
which is near
camp and can sensibly refer to it, it's totally fine. And while one could definitely refer to
camp with a
where, the GMAT is really averse to
preposition + where/when constructions. It
strongly prefers
preposition + which.
I hope that helps!
Ryan
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