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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Aunt Mildred was the kind of woman which volunteered
long hours on behalf of the church.
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay Next up side writing shmoop uppers You go sentence
- 00:06
for youto edit Aunt mildred was the kind of woman
- 00:10
which volunteered long hours on behalf of the church art
- 00:14
is she a witch Does she fly around on a
- 00:16
broom People well let's Give a round of applause for
Full Transcript
- 00:19
aunt millie There let's give her some respect by using
- 00:21
a relative pronoun that refers to a human Not a
- 00:25
thing She's the subject of this sentence So who is
- 00:28
the right choice here And mildred was the kind of
- 00:31
woman who volunteered Long hours Yeah not a witch on
- 00:35
the broom Alright we'll lose herbal Yeah the pronoun which
- 00:38
refers to an object of things We're not a take
- 00:40
another woz yet makes a sentence of fragment although we
- 00:43
couldn't use that anyway we use who when the pronoun
- 00:47
stands for a sentence subject and whom when the pronin
- 00:50
is a sentence object But in this case we need
- 00:53
to use who not whom and kudos to aunt millie
- 00:56
for her commitment to community service Yeah way to go 00:00:59.386 --> [endTime] very millie Yeah you're not a wage
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