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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Which

The coding scheme is a Standard which tells the user's machine which character represents which set of bytes.
I saw the above at geeksforgeeks.org.
Please explain the grammatical form and function of both "which" in "a standard which tells..." and "which character....bytes".

  

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Jigneshbharati The coding scheme is a Standard which tells the user's machine which character represents which set of bytes. org. bytes".

  • Jigneshbharati The coding scheme is a Standard which tells the user's machine which character represents which set of bytes.
  • org.
  • bytes".
  • I see what he means, but he got it backwards, if you ask me.
  • The bytes represent characters.
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Jigneshbharati

The coding scheme is a Standard which tells the user's machine which character represents which set of bytes.
I saw the above at geeksforgeeks.org.
Please explain the grammatical form and function of both "which" in "a standard which tells..." and "which character....bytes".

I see what he means, but he got it backw

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Jigneshbharatiwhich tells

Here 'which' is a relative pronoun.

Jigneshbharatiwhich character

Here 'which' is an interrogative adjective.

Jigneshbharatiwhich set

Another interrogative adjective.

CJ

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