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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Which??

The orator put most of the audience, WHICH was uninterested in the lecture, to sleep. 

Do we need to use WHICH here? I think we should use WHO. 

Thoughts?
  

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It depends on whether you are thinking of the audience as a group, or as individuals. I'd use "which" (thinking of them all as a mass entity), but wouldn't have any trouble reading "who" (thinking of them as a bunch of individuals).

— BarbaraPA

  • It depends on whether you are thinking of the audience as a group, or as individuals.
  • I'd use "which" (thinking of them all as a mass entity), but wouldn't have any trouble reading "who" (thinking of them as a bunch of individuals).
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It depends on whether you are thinking of the audience as a group, or as individuals.

I'd use "which" (thinking of them all as a mass entity), but wouldn't have any trouble reading "who" (thinking of them as a bunch of individuals).
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