[OS X TeX] Grammar checker [OT]

Alain Schremmer schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 23:27:23 CET 2008


On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Robert Bruner wrote:

> While we're OT, I seem to recall that the that/which distinction was
> invented by Strunk and White, partly on the grounds that it was
> wasteful to have two words which served exactly the same purpose.
>
> This, at least, is the story that was told in a, now otherwise  
> forgotten,
> article I read some years agon on the matter.
>
> The NYTimes commentary linked earlier in this discussion is the  
> best exposition
> of the distinction I have seen.

Given that the Oxford comes with the Mac, one needs only check in the  
dictionary any of the following: that, which, restrictive.

Regards
--schremmer



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