The development of the relative pronouns that and which in English has been a complex process.Old English used the particle e as a relative pronoun, but into the Middle English period,‘that’ became the most frequently used relative pronoun. Wh- pronouns rose after the pronouns started losing their interrogative qualities. A study on the historical development for‘that and which”wil make us master the usages of attributive clauses better.
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