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On Friday, 2 February 2018 20:05:21 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2018 01:03 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > But its a bad habit which I will never get into! |
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> Couldn't you have said "…habit that I…" in the fact that you were |
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> referencing a specific habit, not just a generic place holder? |
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Nope. He said it's a bad habit. Then he said he'll never get into it. So |
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'which' was right; he was merely adding another thought, not limiting what |
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he'd said before. |
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It has nothing to do with place holders; it's about defining or not |
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defining. As Fowler made clear, though his later revisionists have watered |
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him down. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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