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veen  ·  3070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Students Push Back

    "I understand why using “which” to refer to an idea instead of a single noun is syntactically wrong....

I don't understand it entirely. What constitutes an idea? These are some of my recent usages of the word which. Did I get it wrong somewhere?

    the gist you mention, which is the main topic of the video

    But I also really enjoyed The Ballad of Mr. Steak, which is a stylistic precursor to

    that is the part that resonated the most with me. Which might explain the urge that I always have

    Tesla isn't prevented from driving by transportation authorities, which is the point I was trying to make

I do recall that one shouldn't use relative pronouns to start a sentence. Other than that, these seem like good uses to me. For me, concise and unambiguous writing is more important than getting the minutiae of writing correct.