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Because photograph is a thing and not a person.
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| Tue Sep 26, 2006 17:52 pm Difference between who and which |
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| Torsten wrote: | | Because photograph is a thing and not a person. |
Hello,
May i ask a question,
Can we use "that" here , cause you said : "Which is never a demonstrative and does not relete to specific things"
And I think in this case the photograph is a specific thing, why dont we use "that"?
Thank you
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| Wed Sep 27, 2006 22:38 pm Difference between who and which |
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You may say:
I'm looking at the photograph that you sent me with your letter. |
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| Wed Sep 27, 2006 23:07 pm Difference between who and which |
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| Baovan wrote: | | Torsten wrote: | | Because photograph is a thing and not a person. |
Hello,
May i ask a question,
Can we use "that" here , cause you said : "Which is never a demonstrative and does not relete to specific things"
And I think in this case the photograph is a specific thing, why dont we use "that"?
Thank you
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Hi Baovan
The word "which" is a relative pronoun in the sentence. The word that can also used as a relative pronoun. The relative pronoun who can only be used to refer to a person.
The demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these and those.
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| Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:27 am Difference between who and which |
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| Pamela wrote: | You may say:
I'm looking at the photograph that you sent me with your letter. |
Thank you , so we can use "that", but clearly the photograph is a specific thing, but in the question 6, teacher said "Which is never a demonstrative and does not relete to specific things" . I dont know if I understood it correctly? does that mean which never refers to a specific thing, so why we use which when the photograph is specified?
Thank you so much for your help and time. |
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| Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:07 am Difference between who and which |
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| Baovan wrote: | | Pamela wrote: | You may say:
I'm looking at the photograph that you sent me with your letter. |
Thank you , so we can use "that", but clearly the photograph is a specific thing, but in the question 6, teacher said "Which is never a demonstrative and does not relete to specific things" . I dont know if I understood it correctly? does that mean which never refers to a specific thing, so why we use which when the photograph is specified?
Thank you so much for your help and time. |
Hi Baovan,
Yankee has given a perfect explanation. Which is not a demonstrative noun but relative. Here we train the usage of relative pronouns. 
Relative pronouns are: who, whose, which, that, as.
I'm looking at the photograph that you sent me with your letter. By the way, that introduces attributive relative clause here. |
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| Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:11 am Difference between who and which |
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Hi Baovan
The relative pronoun which may refer to a specific thing or things.
As has been mentioned, which is not a demonstrative pronoun. So, which cannot be used to talk about a specific thing or things in the same way that a demonstrative pronoun can.
I myself would probably use which to introduce a non-defining relative clause rather than a defining relative clause. In this particular sentence, I probably would have used the relative pronoun that. However, the word that was not given as one of the choices.
I hope that answers your question.
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| Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:21 am Difference between who and which |
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| Thank you Yankee and Pamela very much |
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