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(1)People ______ enjoy hiking always keep healthy.
"who" is the correct answer. how about "that"?

(2) He likes every movie _____ Tom Cruise is in.
are "which" and "that" correct answers? or only "that" because the word"every"?

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[Don Phillipson]

<huichen61@yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message
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[John Lawler]

<huichen61@yahoo.com.tw> writes:

[Skitt]

John Lawler wrote:

[R J Valentine]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:58:35 -0800 Skitt <skitt99@comcast.net> wrote:

} John Lawler wrote:
}> <huichen61@yahoo.com.tw> writes:
}
}>> (1) People ______ enjoy hiking always keep healthy.
}>> "who" is the correct answer. how about "that"?
}>
}> As it should say somewhere in your English textbook, in a restrictive
}> relative clause one may *always* use 'that' instead of 'who' or any
}> other relative pronoun. Therefore that's the one for English
}> learners to learn to use; all you have to do with 'who' is learn to
}> understand it.
}>
}> Note, by the way, that this relative pronoun is the subject of the
}> relative clause and therefore can't be deleted. So the blank does
}> have to be filled, either with 'who' or 'that'.
}
} While all of the above is true, it should be noted that most people will use
} "who" for the discussed sentence, and a "that", while not incorrect, will
} raise the eyebrows of the many who prefer a "who" when referring to persons.
} It is also correct that in a restrictive relative clause one may *always*
} use 'who' instead of 'that' and be no less correct than when employing the
} opposite suggestion. It's just one of those things that really doesn't
} matter.
}
} Me, I prefer a "who" when referring to persons, but there are some instances
} when a "that" comes naturally. I don't fight it when that happens.

Like when you could leave it out?

Prof. Lawler may have touched on it on a snipped part of the quoted
posting when he mentioned that "which" is in a different register than
"that". Both "which" and "who" tend to get punched a little harder than
"that" would be. People who stress "that" tend to make it sound funny.

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R. J. Valentine <mailto:rj@smart.net>

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