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which Determinative

— You use which to ask for the selection of one or more members of some set. There are a lot of new books this year. Which ones do you like? Excuse me, which way is the toilet? Which of the two wines is cheaper? Which of the following cheeses are usually made from sheep's milk? A. pecorino B. vaccino C. provolone D. chevre. — You use which to add a clause to explain what thing you're talking about. For several seconds he sat in silence, during which time the tea and sandwiches arrived. I'm thinking of getting a new car, in which case I'd get a red one.

which Pronoun

— You use which to add a clause to give more information about the thing you're talking about. We've met some problems which are very difficult to handle. He walked by a door with a sign which reads: PRIVATE OFFICE. He had to leave, which was very difficult. We have to protect the environment in which we live. No art can be properly understood apart from the culture of which it is a part.

which determiner

— (interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied. — (relative) the one(s) that

which pronoun

— (interrogative) What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). — (relative) Who; whom; what (of those mentioned or implied). — (relative) who, whom, what

which noun

— An occurrence of the word which.

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Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Relative pronouns

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who whom that which why

Grammar General words Thing

Markers of identificational and explanatory clauses

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which shows that so we find so we see

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Simple sentences

Which party do you belong to?

I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.

Which way is the beach?

Please tell me which bus to take to get to the station.

Gravity is the natural force by which objects are attracted to each other.

Which is the capital of the United States, Washington or New York?

Which airport do I leave from?

Which subject do you like best?

Which bag is yours?

Tennis is difficult. I never know which way the ball is going to fly.

Which do you prefer, spring or autumn?

Kobe is the city which I was born in.

Have you found the umbrella which you said you had lost the other day?

Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

All that which is invented, is true.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Our opinion is an idea which we have; our conviction an idea which has us.

The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

Unsure of which suitor she wanted to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.

When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.

Sadly many people will believe things told to them via an email which they would find implausible face-to-face.

Which country are you from?

Which is your luggage?

There are things in this world which simply cannot be expressed in the form of words.

In which folder did you save the file?

Phosphorus provides nourishment for cyanobacteria (blue algae) which multiply and release toxins.

Which club do you belong to?

Which bed do you want to use?

Which college are you aiming for?

Movie subtitles

I placed a Geass on her which makes her carve a symbol on this wall every day.

The opponent is an empire which has subdued over a third of the world.

The work ethic, which you obviously all have.

This is just one volume of the vast encyclopaedia of Chinese literature and learning which he commissioned.

As a new century dawned in 1 400, the emperor YongIe had another transport technology at his disposal, which had the potential to make him master, not just of the middle Kingdom, but of the entire global market.

And the murderers and the robbers, and the AIDS, and the snakes, and the safari ants, which can actually plant their eggs underneath your skin and eat you from the inside out.

Which means you have to do what we have all done.

And it came to pass that, in the same year, they had a number of battles in which the Nephites did beat the Lamanites and did slay many of them.

And if you don't get out of this village, right now, he is going to command the angel Moroni, from the Death Star, to unleash the Kraken, which will then. which will then. which will then.

Most of the worlds we've found are gas giants, which probably couldn't support life.

But there was also a lot of the greenhouse gas water vapour in the atmosphere, which blanketed and heated the planet.

I could either get down on my hands and knees here and spend the rest of my life counting every single one or I could do what Kepler's going to do, which we call sampling.

Thanks to this discovery he established his name even more so, which helped him pursue his plans for further research on the Milky Way Galaxy in collaboration with institutions abroad.

Henk hacl finished his studies, except for the final exam, which he could not do, because the University was closed.

Which is emitted as radio emission.

Which was removed in the late 50s.

No surprise, because the Americans had a huge advance because they had a lot of experience with microwave techniques, which they had developed during the war.

We had to know exactly in which direction the instrument would be pointing.

Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.

As for you, Hubert, you'll handle the cholera epidemic, which has hit our troops very hard.

It's a question of religion, which is sacred.

I dove head first into the bewitching world of Islam, which mixed nobility, poetry and cruelty, and where God commanded every move.

I accept your homage to France, which grants you its protection, as a sign that the past has been forgiven.

We're trying to build trust with tribes loyal to our country but the encampment policy, which was adopted against the army's advice and gave you land that belonged to the Arabs, is turning the tribes against us and undermining our work.

Which he never fucking does.

So, like, there's the rope-skipping area, which belongs to the grade five girls.

Me and my crew hang out at the top of the slide so I can see what's going on in the whole yard, most of which I control.

They also control the soccer pitch, which means if you want to play there, you have to ask permission from Frankie and his crew.

Yeah, which isn't fair.

We can't play, which means you lose, unless you've got another ball.

They play dirty, which is why sometimes it seems like it's damned near impossible for rule-abiding kids to win.

Most kids didn't think about that, which is why I got most kids to bet against them.

Which is why removing you is an easy piece of damage limitation.

Well, I do, I want to speak to my kids, but I don't know which one to choose.

If I've only got one call, which one do I call?

And then season three, she sort of comes to terms with it, which.

Which I kind of surprised myself at, to be honest.

Because of the danger of war which has always existed, unconditionally raise the white flag and present our country to them, surrendering totally.

News and current affairs

A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.

This is neither a correct description nor a useful terminology for terrorist acts, which are more correctly described as criminal.

This stance, however, has not prevented the spread of something for which a German word is used in other languages, too: Angst.

Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.

In the short run, the US current-account deficit will remain, regardless of which country runs bilateral surpluses.

That augurs well for a more rational and constructive Sino-American dialogue on global imbalances, which would certainly benefit the global economy.

As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify.

His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.

He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.

He could be a fierce turf fighter, yet it is fair to say that he could have fought harder for his moderate and dovish views in the post-1967 government in which he served.

Berlin today is vibrant and rejuvenated, rebuilt by the German peoples' hard work and sacrifice to unify the country, and an apt setting for the conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which I was there to attend.

To many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.

It assures the three small Baltic countries that the nightmare of occupation by big neighbors (Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR), which they endured for half-a-century -- will not be repeated.

Expansion will also create a better Europe because enlargement widens the territory in which countries are committed to NATO's political values, including individual rights as well as the rights of minorities.

At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.

Jeff Greason, a senior manager at Intel, started XCOR Aerospace (in which I'm an investor).

That leaves only about one-third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.

This is too small a pool of money from which to achieve deficit reduction on the scale that the US will need in the years ahead.

Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.

At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.

It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

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