On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:37:20AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > First of all, I need to apologize for my earlier statement in a related > thread that you should generically substitute the use of word "that" for > "which". They are distinctly different beasts. Google turned up a few > grammatical advice sites[1,2,3] for clarifying the usage. In any case, > the statement [A] is VERY wrong. The use of "which" v.s. "that" > revolves around the idea of restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. > Use "which" to introduce non-restrictive clauses[2,3]. In the case of > statement [A], you are introducing essential information. It is a > restrictive clause, therefore requiring the use of "that".
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