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Urgent grammar help as usual....

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  • 09-12-2014 11:57am
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    Sclosages
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭


    Which is correct?

    1. .....that this is the first job description that I have read......

    2. .....that this is the first job description which I have read......


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    Sclosages
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭Sclosages


    ALso - is it 'bear with me' or 'bare with me'?


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    nompere
    Registered Users Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭nompere


    Sclosages wrote: »
    ALso - is it 'bear with me' or 'bare with me'?

    That would depend on whether you want me to tolerate you, or for us to get undressed together!


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    Eirien
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭Eirien


    Sclosages wrote: »
    Which is correct?

    1. .....that this is the first job description that I have read......

    2. .....that this is the first job description which I have read......

    Unless you want to provide some extra, non-essential information which is not actually required to understand which job description we are talking about (as in “the first job description, which I only read because I had nothing better to do“), either 'that' or 'which' are fine.


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    Sclosages
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭Sclosages


    Eirien wrote: »
    Unless you want to provide some extra, non-essential information which is not actually required to understand which job description we are talking about (as in “the first job description, which I only read because I had nothing better to do“), either 'that' or 'which' are fine.

    oops - the sentence did continue and I went with 'that'. Ah well. Hopefully they're not grammar pedants.


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Sclosages wrote: »
    Which is correct?

    1. .....that this is the first job description that I have read......

    2. .....that this is the first job description which I have read......
    On this side of the Atlantic, which and that are used interchangeably in such constructions. In the USA, they lean more strongly towards that.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    On this side of the Atlantic, which and that are used interchangeably in such constructions. In the USA, they lean more strongly towards that.

    ...and Canada.....

    tac


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