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Mercurysmile3 Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Can 'which' be a subordinate conjunction?

Does anyone know if 'which' can be a subordinate conjunction. This is the context which it is being used in:

'He swallowed a lot new questions which had just occured to him and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling."

Thanks again!

Melissa
  

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Hi Melissa,

'Which' can serve to introduce either restrictive or non-restrictive clauses; it is 'that' that is still restricted to restrictive clauses:

'The question which occurred to him was rhetorical.'
'The rhetorical question, which occurred to him in a dream, was nonsensical.'
'The question that occurred to him was nonsensical.'


Your sentence, corr
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Yes, "which" can be a subordinate conjunction. It is also called a relative pronoun.
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