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Riglos Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

my family who / which?

Hi people!

Which would be the right relative pronoun to use in this context?

I'm used to talking to my family, who/which live/s in Paris using MSN.

Could you explain why?

Thanks a lot!

Mara.
  

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I'm used to using MSN to talk to my family, who live in Paris.

— CalifJim

  • I'm used to using MSN to talk to my family, who live in Paris.
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I'm used to using MSN to talk to my family, who live in Paris.
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" who " refers to people and " which " refers to things. In your sentence, either restrictive or non-restrive clause is involved. Restrictive clause uses to identify or classify a noun.On the other hand, Non-restrcitive clause tells us more the identify noun, like giving you more information. The sentence still is good even without a non-restrive clause but a not restrictive clause.

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Welkins2139" who " refers to people and " which " refers to things. In your sentence, either restrictive or non-restrive clause is involved. Restrictive clause uses to identify or classify a noun.On the other hand, Non-restrcitive clause tells us more the identify noun, like giving you more information. The sentence still is good even without a non-restrive clause but a
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No! The sentence has to have the comma!

Without the comma you are implying that you have more than one family and you are used to talking only to the one living in Paris (as opposed to the one living in Rome, for example)! This should be a non-restrictive clause and should have a comma.

("defining" or "restrictive" - same thing)

CJ
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