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Subject: Re: It's what It's
From: lyndsey -dot- amott -at- docsymmetry -dot- com
To: "Elizabeth O'Shea" <elizabeth -dot- oshea -at- virtualaccess -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:13:41 -0500

Elizabeth O'Shea writes:

I
teach them this mnemonic: if you can put a comma before which and the
sentence still makes sense, then you should use 'which' instead of
'that'.

My mother, a grammar nazi, taught me this mnemonic, which might be easier to remember since it doesn't mention confusing commas: "Use 'which' only when you can't use 'that'."
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Lyndsey Amott
www.docsymmetry.com
Winnipeg, MB R3G 2J3



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