Re: "keep non-free" proposal
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".
If any good comes of this thread, let it be this.
Andrew
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