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"Which" can be a tricky word. If you're still confusing watch the SAT Writing video - it'll help you out.
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All right Writing shmoop er's Lucky you spending your saturday
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afternoon with us Here we go For which That's it
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that's a little phrase They're in this paragraph We're hunting
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for it Okay And for which there it is when
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troubled winds moving anything that i can tell you things
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are different intonation Founders be excluded those for which no
- 00:21
authoritative image could be found or created And you got
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it Okay well what does that mean for us For
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which look good to you Is this a witch of
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that Of whom Or a water Which was who All
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right we're thinking well those poor anonymous people because while
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the relative pronoun should be referring to people we know
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we can choose between who or whom And we got
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a problem So ain't a because the people also happened
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to serve as the object in the sentence Well they
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received the action of the verb Yeah so we know
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that we need to choose whom so that's it The
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answer is c all right well just for keeps here
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which they would be correct those referred to physical things
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rather than people Or maybe there were robots you know
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not humanoid enough The construction for that And be there
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when referring back to a pro known isn't used in
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english Yeah try your russian Maybe that works even if
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it were while putting that so close to those makes
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the sentence vague and confusing who be right there The
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relative pronin used for subjects not objects as in we
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want to know who's smart You are that's who at
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least we hope so This we hope you made you 00:01:26.811 --> [endTime] smarter
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