Antecedent of relative pronouns like that, which etc.

[karthik.eleven]

"The banning of alcohol by the town which was all over the news caused few of the city council members to resign. "

does 'which' modify/refer to the noun "town" or the whole noun phrase "The banning of alcohol by the town"

This kinda stuff has been discussed in few other threads ; but I haven't seen a concrete rule nailed down.

[RonPurewal]

"The banning of alcohol by the town which was all over the news caused few of the city council members to resign. "

does 'which' modify/refer to the noun "town" or the whole noun phrase "The banning of alcohol by the town"

This kinda stuff has been discussed in few other threads ; but I haven't seen a concrete rule nailed down.

where did you get this?

the gmat will never use "which" unless it's preceded by a comma, so i can tell that this is not from an official problem.

here's what you should do:

* go post this in the GENERAL VERBAL folder (where it belongs, since it's not official)
* post the WHOLE PROBLEM it comes from, with ALL ANSWER CHOICES
* NAME THE SOURCE of the problem.

thanks.