Which or that?
Should I use "that" or "which" in the sentence below?
The idea which/that she put forward was interesting.
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Both are fine. With integrated (defining) relatives it's a free choice between wh -relatives one and that -relatives. The idea which she put forward and the idea that she put forward show no semantic differences, and no syntactic differences other than what follows from "that" not being a pronoun ( the idea from which it came is grammatical, but * the idea from that it came is of course not.
- Both are fine.
- With integrated (defining) relatives it's a free choice between wh -relatives one and that -relatives.
- The idea which she put forward and the idea that she put forward show no semantic differences, and no syntactic differences other than what follows from "that" not being a pronoun ( the idea from which it came is grammatical, but * the idea from that it came is of course not.
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Both are fine. With integrated (defining) relatives it's a free choice between wh-relatives one and that-relatives.
The idea which she put forward and the idea that she put forward show no semantic differences, and no syntactic differences other than what follows from "that" not being a pronoun (the idea from which it came is grammatical,
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