After glaring upon the smoking philosopher, who took his misfortunes with such positive nonchalance, he growled out an oath in German,which language is particularly adapted for growling in; then, raising his hand, he dealt him a blow on his pipe, which sent it, like a rocket, into the midst of the players.
Whitaker’s blog post, housed on a website called Minutes Before Six, goes on to make references to Albert Camus’ 1947 classic, The Plague, dips into a Camus-inspired existential ramble and returns to an attempt to convey the detail of Prieto’s being essentially “noble,”which fact, he admits, will be lost in translation to anyone unfamiliar with death row units.
All the phones come in plastic bodies that have been given a brushed-metal finish and carry 64-bit processors from Intel,which fact they proudly announce with an Intel Inside logo on the back.
He once owned a painting of the house,which painting would later be stolen.
She only speaks Chinese,which language I can hardly follow.
For several seconds he sat in silence, duringwhich time the tea and sandwiches arrived.
I'm thinking of getting a new car, inwhich case I'd get a red one.
In cases where both "which" and "what" are possible, with similar meaning, "which" is preferred for choices from a closed group or set, while "what" is preferred for open-ended choices. For example, "Which one of these do you want?" not "What one of these do you want?".
Which of these banes of modern business life is worse remains open to debate. But what is clear is that office workers are on a treadmill of pointless activity. Managers allow meetings to drag on for hours. Workers generate e-mails because it requires little effort and no thought. An entire management industry exists to spin the treadmill ever faster.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guardwhich connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget,which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions,which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
(chiefly archaic)Used of people (now generallywho,whom,that;which remains possible with words also referred to byit such asbaby,child).
She had a young child,which cried incessantly.
Referring to a preceding statement.
The front door was open,which concerned me.
He had to leave,which was very difficult.
She saved my life, forwhich I am eternally grateful.
Plastics are energy-rich substances,which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Some authorities insist that relativewhich be used only in non-restrictive clauses (e.g., “I saw Tom’s car,which was parked outside his house”), or when it is the object of a preposition placed in front of the pronoun (e.g., “These are the thingsabout which we shall talk”, “There were many fish, the biggestof which …”). Non-restrictive clauses are normally set off with a comma or commas. For restrictive clauses (e.g.,The songthat you just mentioned is better than the later ones), they preferthat. ButFowler, who proposed the rule, acknowledged, “It would be idle to pretend that it is the practice either of most or of the best writers.” In modern UK usage,The song which you just mentioned is better than the later ones is generally accepted without question.
Whenwhich (or the other relative pronounswho andthat) is used as the subject of a relative clause, the verb agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun. Thus, “the thing which is …”, “the things which are …”, etc.
Which is commonly used, sometimes with partitiveof, instead ofwho (the ordinary interrogative pronoun, in the nominative singular or plural) to refer to a person or persons, and corresponding towhat of things. Compare “which of us always useswho for people” and “who among us has never usedwhich for a person”. Neither “who of us” nor “which among us” is idiomatic.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page102
