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Old 16-Jun-2007, 07:35
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Default Re: relative clauses (that vs. who)

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Originally Posted by Casiopea View Post

Lenka, the phrase the best person houses the noun person, yes, but that noun is also modified by an adjective, one that turns the noun phrase into name for a person. Names are not people, which is why that, not who works best with your example sentence.

Does that help?
Casiopea, thank you very much for your effort to explain it to me, bu it seems to be quite meaningless . I just don't understand it.
I'll try asking a Czech English teacher (Can I say it like this? I mean an English teacher whose mother language is Czech.).
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