[OS X TeX] Grammar checker [OT]
Alain Schremmer
schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 17:27:23 EST 2008
On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Robert Bruner wrote:
> While we're OT, I seem to recall that the that/which distinction was
> invented by Strunk and White, partly on the grounds that it was
> wasteful to have two words which served exactly the same purpose.
>
> This, at least, is the story that was told in a, now otherwise
> forgotten,
> article I read some years agon on the matter.
>
> The NYTimes commentary linked earlier in this discussion is the
> best exposition
> of the distinction I have seen.
Given that the Oxford comes with the Mac, one needs only check in the
dictionary any of the following: that, which, restrictive.
Regards
--schremmer
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