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Infinity Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

That Or Who?

0 According to a grammar book, you use 'that' as the complement of a defining relative clause, or you do not use a pronoun at all. 02br
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00"...the distiguished actress that she later became." 02br
00"That was the kind of person she was." 02br
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00I am not quite clear that why you can't use 'who'. 02br
00"He is a kind of doctor who I want to be." 02br
00Is 'WHO' gramatically wrong? 02br
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"02i 02br 02br 00We can use "that" to refer to both people and things. g. The doctor who looks after me", "the doctor that looks after me" would both be equally acceptable.

— Abbie1948

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0 Hi Infinity, 02br
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00According to a grammar book, you use 'that' as the complement of a defining relative clause, or you do not use a pronoun at all.12blockquote
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00This is correct; you can just as easily say 01i00"...the distiguished actress she later became."02i02br
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0 'He is the kind of doctor ____ I want to be.' 02br
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00Can we use who/whom? 02br
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00I would take the relative pronoun here as referring back to 'kind', and so wouldn't use who/whom. 02br
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00Just my opinion though. 02br
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00Mr2P 0-
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0That was my initial thought, Mr. P. as I too assume it is the "kind" (of Dr.) you want to be, and not the man himself. Just making life too complicated for myself again!050010id8
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0 Thanks, Abbie and My.P. That's all I wanted to make sure. 0-
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