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To: Ilaine who wrote (1986)	3/1/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) of 4711

We need a fax machine that is small, which will work reliably for large jobs. Nothing wrong with this phraseology on the surface, although it does appear that the "which" is modifying "small"--which is not what you want to say. The key for me has always been the following: "That" for information that is essential. (An example in the sentence.) "Which" for information that is not essential to the thought. (Although it may be very interesting, add local color, etc.) I should share that I had an amazingly good grounding in grammar in elementary school. Those parochial schools did something well! (And I had been reading since I was three under my mother's tutelage, so I absorbed grammar without knowing what the foundations of grammar were.) Then I went on to a private high school. Most of the students had not had grammar drilled into them, so we were immersed in grammar. On to college, where--you guessed it!--most of the students, etc. And then a year at Katharine Gibbs, where--same old song again! I feel as though I am one of the few people left in the world who can still diagram a sentence.

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