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TSI Writing: "Which" vs. "That" 1 Views


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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Miranda, a brilliant and devoted scientist, wrote a letter to the online forum. Which was published in July of last year.


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All right see writing shoppers Another sentence for you miranda

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ah brilliant and devoted scientist wrote a letter to the

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online forum which was published in july of last year

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Are we have a problem Houston style Okay most online

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forms are chock full of users with dubious spelling in

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a fondness for complaining at least whining But this scientist

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letter might just be legit way just hope miranda figured

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out when to use which relative pronoun win both which

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and that when properly punctuated can connect a noun letter

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right there Intuits modifier was published in july of last

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year right That modifies that in this case well we'll

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go with the option that minimizes the number of commons

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in the sense and focuses attention on the fact that

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miranda is now a published author more or less so

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The answer here is d wrote a letter to the

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online forum that was published in july of last year

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right C l smooth that seems so we're going to

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get rid of that eh They're pares it without mama

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And then if we look att the other one here

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see when using which with a comma Well you've got

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to be sure to put the noun close to its

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modifier If left as is which was published in july

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of last year that modifies the online forum Rather thin

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the letter and that would be just wrong So you

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get rid of be there too Okay so that's it 00:01:27.466 --> [endTime] We're shmoop and published Say what

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