Writing for Business and Pleasure
Copyright by Stephen Wilbers
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Use which to refer to the word or phrase that immediately precedes it, not to the overall thought of the sentence, as it does in the example below.

Rewrite the sentence replacing the weak which clause with the phrase “an unforgivable breach in etiquette.”

“I read the letter, which was impolite and unforgivable.”

Answer

Writing for Business and Pleasure
Copyright by Stephen Wilbers
www.wilbers.com

Use which to refer to the word or phrase that immediately precedes it, not to the overall thought of the sentence, as it does in the example below.

Rewrite the sentence replacing the weak which clause with the phrase “an unforgivable breach in etiquette.”

“I read the letter, an unforgivable breach in etiquette.”

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