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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (536)8/6/1997 6:01:00 PM
From: Rambi   of 71178
 
Concerned that I had criticized too quickly, I got out my trusty WriteSOurce 2000 (it's Sebranek/Meyer, UL, is that the one you don't like?) and found that "which refers to non-living objects or animals; never people, and that may refer to animals, people or nonliving objects.
Now could a case be made that in the critiqued sentence "authors" is a non-living word and is not directly a people word? Certainly some authors are dead. SOme write as if they were. SOme write as if they were animals. But I doubt that the teacher spent a great amount of time debating these points with herself or her compatriots.
I did wonder about the that... because, like you, I was taught not to use it in place of who...
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