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Teal lime Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

That or which

The following sentence is taken from an article titled "Possessive Adjectives - Definition and Examples":

Also called possessive determiners, possessive adjectives refer to words WHICH modify a noun by showing a form of possession or a sense of belonging to a particular person or thing.

My question is this:

Don't you think it would be more better grammar to use "that" above?

Thank you.

  

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Some people prefer "that" for defining clauses, but this is not required, and it is not wrong to use "which" in this case. ". It is not possessive adjectives which refer to such words, but the term "possessive adjective".

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  • Some people prefer "that" for defining clauses, but this is not required, and it is not wrong to use "which" in this case.
  • ".
  • It is not possessive adjectives which refer to such words, but the term "possessive adjective".
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Some people prefer "that" for defining clauses, but this is not required, and it is not wrong to use "which" in this case. The problem with the sentence is actually "possessive adjectives refer to ...". It is not possessive adjectives which refer to such words, but the term "possessive adjective".

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No, it's a free choice here between a which-relative and a that-relative:

"... possessive adjectives are words which modify a noun ..." and "... possessive adjectives are words that modify a noun ..." show no semantic differences, and no syntactic differences other than what follows from "that" not being a pronoun.



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