I am trying to determine the use of "that" or "who" in this sentence: Workers ____ were sent did not speak English.
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4Possible duplicate of Should you use "who" or "that" when talking about multiple people doing something? Also How to use “who” vs. “that”, and doubtless several others.– FumbleFingersCommented Feb 10, 2016 at 15:32
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Depends whether the workers are human or bees (or whether you know individual bees and think of them as persons).– DrewCommented Feb 10, 2016 at 15:59
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With human head nouns it's a free choice between wh-relatives and that-relatives: Workers who were sent did not speak English and Workers that were sent did not speak English show no semantic differences, and no syntactic differences.
