SC Jessica Mitford wrote The

[its_vishalsinha]

Jessica Mitford wrote The American Way of Death, a best-selling book, that led eventually to an official investigation of the funeral industry.

A. that led eventually
B. that had led eventually
C. that eventually led
D. which led eventually
E. who eventually led

Answer is D. I chose C

Source: testprepareview.com

[esledge]

The main split between answers C and D is which vs. that. Which is used for non-essential modifiers, that for essential modifiers.

"Jessica Mitford wrote The American Way of Death" as a sentence would be not only complete grammatically, but also complete in meaning. By removing the modifiers, we only lose a little extra information about the book, not the main meaning of the sentence. That's the sign that the modifier is non-essential, so we should use "which."

[srideepalakshmi]

Hi,
I have a doubt here...
What if I had the choices in the following way ?

C. which eventually led
D. which led eventually

eventually is an adverb. Is it proper when it preceeds the verb ?

Regards,
R.Srideepa

[RonPurewal]

either of those would be fine. the official test will never, ever split on something as minute and insignificant as that.

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emily's explanation above is correct. however, there is a much simpler criterion by which you can also eliminate the first 3 choices:
which MUST follow a comma.
that CANNOT follow a comma.

the first 3 choices all have "that" after a comma, so they're all wrong.
end of story.

the gmat will almost certainly not be this generous in its wrong answer choices, unfortunately.