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TSI Writing: "Which" vs. "That" 1 Views

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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Miranda, a brilliant and devoted scientist, wrote a letter to the online forum. Which was published in July of last year.

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All right see writing shoppers Another sentence for you miranda
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ah brilliant and devoted scientist wrote a letter to the
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online forum which was published in july of last year
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Are we have a problem Houston style Okay most online
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forms are chock full of users with dubious spelling in

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a fondness for complaining at least whining But this scientist
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letter might just be legit way just hope miranda figured
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out when to use which relative pronoun win both which
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and that when properly punctuated can connect a noun letter
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right there Intuits modifier was published in july of last
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year right That modifies that in this case well we'll
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go with the option that minimizes the number of commons
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in the sense and focuses attention on the fact that
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miranda is now a published author more or less so
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The answer here is d wrote a letter to the
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online forum that was published in july of last year
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right C l smooth that seems so we're going to
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get rid of that eh They're pares it without mama
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And then if we look att the other one here
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see when using which with a comma Well you've got
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to be sure to put the noun close to its
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modifier If left as is which was published in july
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of last year that modifies the online forum Rather thin
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the letter and that would be just wrong So you
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get rid of be there too Okay so that's it 00:01:27.466 --> [endTime] We're shmoop and published Say what
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