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Re: English usage: "that" vs. "which"



>From Ben Armstrong on Sunday, 2004-07-04 at 11:05:20 -0300:
> 
> I do not profess to be an expert in English usage myself.  The rampant
> use of "which" where "that" ought to have been used went completely
> unnoticed in my first editing pass.  I have therefore gone back to the
> first sections I covered in order to fix this problem throughout the
> document, up to the point where I left off editing.  In the remaining
> chapters, I will be more careful to spot and correct this error as I go.

Editors sometimes call this procedure a "which hunt".  ;-)

Conrad



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