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Tttt1010 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

By which, from which, in which?

can anyone explain to me the difference of these words and their usage? Thanks.
  

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Which is a relative pronoun and will incorporate any preposition used with its reference. I saw a movie last night which greatly disturbed me (no preposition). I generally like movies in which I can understand the dialogue without problems.

— Philip

  • Which is a relative pronoun and will incorporate any preposition used with its reference.
  • I saw a movie last night which greatly disturbed me (no preposition).
  • I generally like movies in which I can understand the dialogue without problems.
  • [dialogues in the movie] Latin is an ancient language from which the Romance languages are derived.
  • [languages derived from Latin] He's not too bright, by which I mean that he is rather dull.
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Which is a relative pronoun and will incorporate any preposition used with its reference.

I saw a movie last night which greatly disturbed me (no preposition).
I generally like movies in which I can understand the dialogue without problems. [dialogues in the movie]
Latin is an ancient language from which the Romance languages are derived. [languages derived from
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