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when do you use "who" and when you "which"? Help Gramar Nazis!!

10-31-2004, 01:45 PM

for example:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan, who like Edmund are on the evil side.

is it WHO LIKE
or WHICH LIKE

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10-31-2004, 01:48 PM

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10-31-2004, 01:48 PM

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10-31-2004, 02:12 PM

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I'm horrible at grammer.

It's bad when you can't even spell grammar properly.
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10-31-2004, 02:15 PM

Be sure to add the commas in the correct place though.

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who ,like Edmund, are on the evil side.

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10-31-2004, 02:20 PM

Originally posted by NickHimself
Be sure to add the commas in the correct place though.

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who ,like Edmund, are on the evil side.

Agreed, and you didn't:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who, like Edmund, are on the evil side.
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10-31-2004, 03:11 PM

Originally posted by baddog
Agreed, and you didn't:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who, like Edmund, are on the evil side.

Hmm... I'm thinkin a comma should alos be here.. "..her sisters, Goneril and Regan"
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10-31-2004, 03:18 PM

Originally posted by spamofon
for example:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan, who like Edmund are on the evil side.

is it WHO LIKE
or WHICH LIKE

?

Refering to the actual names, "Goneril and Regan" would require the use of, "who" in that it refers to names..

Had the names been omitted, then, "which" would have been used..

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters which, like Edmund, are on the evil side..

At least that's how I'm seein' it..
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10-31-2004, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Scootermuze
Hmm... I'm thinkin a comma should alos be here.. "..her sisters, Goneril and Regan"

So, you are saying it should be "The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters, Goneril and Regan, who, like Edmund, are on the evil side?"

You can have too many commas. I am wondering if sisters should be sisters' since it is "her sisters" thus being a possessive.

But I have not taken English since 1971, so I may be a little rusty there
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10-31-2004, 05:46 PM

Originally posted by NickHimself
Be sure to add the commas in the correct place though.

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters Goneril and Regan who ,like Edmund, are on the evil side.

You got to it before me.

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10-31-2004, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by baddog
So, you are saying it should be "The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters, Goneril and Regan, who, like Edmund, are on the evil side?"

I am wondering if sisters should be sisters' since it is "her sisters" thus being a possessive.

The only possessive would be, "Cordelia's" if you said you were referring to Cordelia's sisters.

The only way, in this instance, that "sisters" could be a possessive is if you were to word it as the sisters' evil side..

Hmm.. wonder if it's ovbious that I have absolutely nothing to do tonight..
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10-31-2004, 07:02 PM

Originally posted by Scootermuze
The only possessive would be, "Cordelia's" if you said you were referring to Cordelia's sisters.

The only way, in this instance, that "sisters" could be a possessive is if you were to word it as the sisters' evil side..

Hmm.. wonder if it's ovbious that I have absolutely nothing to do tonight..

Regardless, both of your posts are 100% correct.
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10-31-2004, 07:14 PM

both are correct

which requires a comma after the word which
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10-31-2004, 07:17 PM

your all wrong, its whom

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10-31-2004, 07:19 PM

Originally posted by Scootermuze
Refering to the actual names, "Goneril and Regan" would require the use of, "who" in that it refers to names..

Had the names been omitted, then, "which" would have been used..

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters which, like Edmund, are on the evil side..

At least that's how I'm seein' it..

It would still be who:

The opposite characters of Cordelia are her sisters, who, like Edmund, are on the evil side.
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