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To: Sowbug who wrote (939)	3/24/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: RogerWillco	Respond to of 4710

I understand...I think! RW oao

To: Sowbug who wrote (939)	3/25/1998 7:33:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Sowbug, I like your explanation and essentially agree. "I like cats, which drink milk. Suggests that the speaker likes all cats for their milk-drinking ability. I like cats that drink milk. Here, the speaker is limiting his/her feline affection to the milk-drinking ones, implying that he/she doesn't like cats that (not which) are averse to milk." But what happens if you leave the comma out of your first example? Doesn't that give the sentence the feel of your second example? I think you are right, but I am suggesting that there may be another way to express the restriction. Jack