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"Which that"

This post was written by Wayne Schiess: "In my writing, I observe the distinction between that and which, using that for restrictive modifying clauses and [comma] which for nonrestrictive clauses. I try to teach my students the difference, but I do not make it a topic of intense focus in the first-year legal-writing course.

When you see mistakes, the mistake is almost always using which without a comma. Thus, the reader is not entirely sure if you intended a restrictive clause but misused which or a nonrestrictive clause but neglected the comma. Like this..."

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Source: Legalwriting.net Blog, 8 October 2010. Copyright 2008. Reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).