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Does 'First Mention' Override Uniqueness in Some Cases When Choosing Articles?

You use the definite article when referring to a known item. So if the story has previously established that Jake had killed someone, you should write "the man whose life he'd taken". If ...
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Is the "which" here grammartically correct?

The RNA techniques have strongly suggested that although the true bacteria indeed form a large coherent group, certain other bacteria, the archaebacteria, which are also prokaryotes and which resemble ...
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Is the "which" here grammartically correct?

(C) Certain other bacteria , the archaebacteria which are also prokaryotes and which resemble true bacteria , represent a distinct evolutionary branch that far antedates the common ancestor of all ...
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Should I use "that" after "whatever"

The second example is best (note that it's anyway - no "s") Anyway, I hope they do whatever is for the benefit of them and the region. To use that, it's a different construct and slightly ...
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the story of warming, which could grow

"which" refers to global warming. In general, when a pronoun is used this way, its antecedent is the closest preceding noun phrase for which it makes sense. Since there's no reason why "...
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