That is the doctor I was wondering about consulting.

[navi tasan]

1) That is the doctor I was wondering about consulting.
2) That is the medication I was asking about taking.
3) Who was the doctor you were wondering about consulting?
4) What was the medication you were asking about taking?

Are these sentences correct?

 

[5jj]

They are all possible.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you very much, 5jj,

How about these sentences?

5) That is the medication whose taking I was asking about.
6) That is the medication the taking of which I was asking about.

They seem to be constructed logically, but sound pretty bad to me!

However it seems to me that in #5 and #6 I am not necessarily considering taking the medication. I feel that in #2 I am the one who is eventually going to take the medication. The question is not simply about what taking that medication would do etc.

Is that correct or could #3 be a general question?

 

[emsr2d2]

How about these sentences?

5) That is the medication whose taking I was asking about.
6) That is the medication the taking of which I was asking about.

6 is OK although it would sound very old-fashioned to me.
5 is wrong. The medication isn't a person so you can't use "whose".

However it seems to me that in #5 and #6 I am not necessarily considering taking the medication.

Both 5 (if it were correct!) and 6 suggest you're considering taking it. If you weren't, why would you be asking about taking it?

I feel that in #2 I am the one who is eventually going to take the medication. The question is not simply about what taking that medication would do etc.

It doesn't ask what the medication would do at all. None of them do.

Is that correct or could #3 be a general question?

Are you sure you mean #3?

Bear in mind that most native speakers would say something like "That's the medication I was asking about". The assumption would be that they were open to taking it. If you wanted to know how/if it would work, or about the possible side effects, you'd need to make that very clear in the question.

 

[Annabel Lee]

1) That is the doctor I was wondering about consulting.
2) That is the medication I was asking about taking.
3) Who was the doctor you were wondering about consulting?
4) What was the medication you were asking about taking?

Are these sentences correct?

I find them all very unnatural. If "wondering" and "asking" were changed to "thinking," however, they would all be natural.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you all very much, and my apologies for the typo. I typed '3' instead of '2'.

Thanks again.

 

[BobK]

PS
A tiny correction to @emsr2d2: there was a time when 'whose' was regarded as a 'correct' (or at least, not incorrect) equivalent of 'of which'. But I agree with her that it sounds odd to use 'whose' to refer to something that isn't a person. She's just too young to have been to a school where they taught this nonsense!

 

[Annabel Lee]

5) That is the medication whose taking I was asking about.

5 is wrong. The medication isn't a person so you can't use "whose".

. . . there was a time when 'whose' was regarded as a 'correct' (or at least, not incorrect) equivalent of 'of which'. But I agree with her that it sounds odd to use 'whose' to refer to something that isn't a person.

I think whose would work in a sentence like this:

That is the machine whose malfunctioning I was asking about.​

The speaker was asking about its (the machine's) malfunctioning, i.e., the malfunctioning of it.

That is the machine. I was asking about its malfunctioning.​

But does the same logic work with Navi's (5)?

?? That is the medicine. I was asking about its taking. ​

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Now, one could ask about its being taken (passive); however, I don't think whose being taken would be grammatical; nor would the being taken of which, in my opinion.