That vs. for which (was: Dubya style sentence formulation)

Subject: That vs. for which (was: Dubya style sentence formulation)
From: "Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:38:28 -0500

Matt Floyd wondered about the relative merits of <<Select the Group Name
[that/for which] you want to change the item order for.>>

I'd go with something even simpler: "Select the Group Name whose item order
you want to change." There's a movement that claims "who" and "whose" can't
be used for nonhuman things (living or otherwise), but they have no
grammatical or lexicographical support for their opinions.

--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."--Goethe

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