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Famflying Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

... to be those that ... what is the meaning ?

Dear everyone,

Can someone please tell me the meaning of "... are those that ..." in below sentence.
I have already met this phrase many times, but I really don't understand.
Hope you can help me. Thank you!

"The AWS D1.1 code provides for the use of prequalified WPSs. Prequalified WPSs are those that the AWS D1 Committee has determined to have a history of acceptable performance, and so does not subject them to the qualification testing imposed on all other welding procedures"
  

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famflying the meaning of "... " Prequalified WPSs are those WPSs that the AWS D1 Committee has determined to have a history of acceptable performance

— Mister Micawber

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famflyingthe meaning of "... are those that ..."
Prequalified WPSs are those WPSs that the AWS D1 Committee has determined to have a history of acceptable performance
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Can you please give me some furrther examples?
Because I still don't understand.

Thanks you,
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'Those' is a pronoun that stands for whatever plural noun has been previously mentioned.
'That' is a pronoun that stands for whatever singular noun has been previously mentioned.

If you do a Google or corpus search for 'those of' and 'that of', you will find many examples.
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Dear Mister Micawber,

Now I think I have already understood the the meaning of the sentence after your explaining.

Thank you,
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