![]() The Writing Center explains how certain speakers think “that” is better for clauses like sentence 1. The Cambridge Dictionary says that replacing “which” with “that” in the first example will sacrifice formality. The pronoun “that” is extremely dynamic as a word and can replace “who” or “which” when we want to define something like “there’s the school that has 2,000 students”, but we can’t use “that” in the second sentence to replace an entire clause. ![]() What’s the difference? Well, in the second example, “which” is representing the entire clause “he’s unhappy”. He’s unhappy which means we’re unhappy.There’s the school which has 2,000 students.Check it out next to a second, different example: In this example, “which” is related to “my school”. But what’s a relative clause? If you have a simple sentence, such as “There’s the school“, and you want to extend the sentence to give more information, you can say “ which has 2,000 students” and the new, longer sentence is a relative clause. As the Cambridge Dictionary correctly tells us, relative pronouns introduce a relative clause. To begin, we should learn to make sentences where “which” refers to a noun that’s been mentioned, an explicit noun. ![]() We give it this name because it’s related to another noun in the sentence, be it a noun that’s previously mentioned in that sentence, or a noun that’s implied. “Which means” used in a sentenceįirstly, where’s it found in a sentences? We must establish the word class of “which”: it’s a relative pronoun. ![]() We’re going to explore this phrase, looking at where it’s found, its different forms and its meaning. ![]() One of its top uses is the example “which means”, *which* can cause problems for the English speaker. A word that we find in so many English sentences, we need to know when and where to use “which”. ![]()
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