Timeline for Who and That : Pronouns or Relative Pronouns [duplicate]
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:56 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:40 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @sumelic Yes, but is "that" a relative pronoun? A very large number of grammarians don't think so. They think it is a subordinator which introduces relative clauses. It's the same "that" we find in subordinate content clauses. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 20:51 | comment | added | John Lawler | The author of the submitted article is ignorant of the facts about English grammar and has substituted their own facts instead. Ignore them. Either who or that is grammatical as restrictive relative pronouns referring to humans. Strictly speaking, that is a complementizer instead of a pronoun (the same one that appears in I think that this is correct), but since it works exactly the same as who it's promoted to associate restrictive relative pronoun in those cases. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 19:52 | comment | added | herisson | My first though was: why not both? Isn't a "relative pronoun" a kind of pronoun, like a "green apple" is a kind of apple? I think it would be easier to answer your question if you explain why you think these are mutually exclusive categories. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 19:51 | history | closed | MetaEd | Duplicate of How to use "who" vs. "that" | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 19:29 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | If you google the uses of who and that (along with other relative pronouns), you will find that most authorities allow that for both people and objects. Who was responsible for your newsletter about grammar? | |
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 19:18 | history | asked | Lilly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |