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Re: The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card, subsidi [#permalink]
OA is D. but what's really wrong with B? or is it just illogical to say "it plans to use money from subsidiary"? Would it have been better if it had said "it plans to use money from the SALE of the subsidiary"?
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When we see "which" , a good construct will be to have non-restrictive clause.
Something can be removed from sentense without changing its meaning.
Else "that" should be used for restrictive clause.

In this Q "which" doesn't fit the purpose of non-restrictive clause.
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The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

(A) subsidiary, which it plans to use money from

(B) subsidiary, from which it plans to use money

(C) subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that

(D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale

(E) subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale

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Though I selected D as the Answer.Can you please help to figure why B is wrong.

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Re: The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card, subsidi [#permalink]
Thank you so much GMATNinja. That makes perfect sense!

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Sure thing! In (B), "from which" seems to be referring to the credit card subsidiary. But this makes it sound as though the company is using money from the credit card subsidiary to acquire new operations. This is illogical - how could a company use money from a subsidiary it no longer owns? (D), on the other hand, makes it clear that the company used money from the sale of the subsidiary to make the acquisitions.

I hope that helps!
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The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

(A) subsidiary, which it plans to use money from
which modifies subsidiary- the subsidiary is not planning to use the money- wrong!

(B) subsidiary, from which it plans to use money
it- can refer to the company or the subsidiary- ambiguous
from which- modifies the subsidiary- meaning error as in A-wrong!

(C) subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that
the option is awkward and passive- wrong!

(D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale
option D has the perfect parallelism
the parallel elements are
The company is negotiating to sell and plans to buy
verb+to verb and verb + to verb- Perfect parallelism!!!- Correct!

(E) subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale
passive voice is awkward and distorts the parallelism-wrong!
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