Use of who versus that

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by findmimi » Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:47 am

When used as pronoun, "who..." has to be used to modify a person and "that" is wrong?

Seen different opinions on various test prep materials.

Help please! Thanks.

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by Adam@Knewton » Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:28 pm

findmimi wrote:When used as pronoun, "who..." has to be used to modify a person and "that" is wrong?

Seen different opinions on various test prep materials.

Help please! Thanks.

I am fairly confident that "that" CAN, although doesn't usually, modify a person. However, "which" can never modify a person.

Correct: "This is the woman whom I am going to marry."
Also correct: "This is the man that I was telling you about."
Incorrect: "Let's go find the person which we are looking for."

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