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the man who had drunk #1 (permalink) Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:53 pm   the man who had drunk
 

Which are correct:

1-In the bar, there was this man and we didn't know how much he had drunk. He fell unconscious.

2-In the bar, a man about whom we didn't know how much he had drunk fell unconscious.

3-In the bar, a man that we didn't know how much he had drunk fell unconscious.

4-In the bar, a man that had drunk we didn't know how much fell unconscious.

I think 1 is OK but is very informal.
4 is probably acceptable but seems to me to imply that he had drunk a lot.
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the man who had drunk #2 (permalink) Sun Jan 15, 2012 13:26 pm   the man who had drunk
 

#1 is OK in an informal conversational style.

#2 is ugly.

#3 is incorrect.

#4 is possible in conversation but looks a bit awkward written down, probably because it loses the guiding intonation. I prefer "who" to "that", but people do use "that". You're right that it tends to imply that he had drunk a lot.
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