Timeline for How to determine whether to use "which" or "what"?
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| S Dec 17, 2023 at 16:48 | history | edited | Paul Tanenbaum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 17, 2023 at 16:48 | history | suggested | Yosef Baskin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Please justify your answer?
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| Dec 14, 2023 at 14:59 | answer | added | Seowjooheng Singapore | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 14:34 | comment | added | BillJ | The contrast between "what" and selective "which" apples to interrogative clauses, not relative clauses like the ones in your examples. 1. is ungrammatical because "what" is not a relative pronoun: "that" or "which" is required. 2. is OK. | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 14:21 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Just because which and what work as a pair in one situation, does not make them substitutes everywhere. Both examples call for the word that here. | |
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| Dec 14, 2023 at 14:03 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2023 at 13:53 | history | edited | train bee 282 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2023 at 13:33 | history | asked | train bee 282 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |