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Coldsun Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

That vs which

Dear all,

In the sentence "Jack answered every question correctly, which makes the teacher surprised", can we omit the comma and replace "which" with "that"? Is it still grammatically correct?
If so, does it change the meaning?

Thanks in advance.
  

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I would reword the sentence: Jack answered every question correctly, which surprised the teacher. The relative pronoun must be which if the antecedent is an entire main clause. CB

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  • I would reword the sentence: Jack answered every question correctly, which surprised the teacher.
  • The relative pronoun must be which if the antecedent is an entire main clause.
  • CB
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I would reword the sentence: Jack answered every question correctly, which surprised the teacher. The relative pronoun must be which if the antecedent is an entire main clause.

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