先行词是物时,其引导词可用 which也可用that,通常情况下二者可互换,但在有些情况下不能。
1.用which不用that引导定语从句的三种情况:
①非限制性定语从句用which,不用that引导。如:
Football,which is a very interesting game,is played all over the world.
②先行词为that时,为了避免重
复,定语从句用which不用that引导。如:
That which you borrowed from me wasn't a real diamond necklace.
③介词后用which不用that引导。如:
The method with which you solved the problem is very good.
2.用that不用which的七种情况:
①先行词前有形容词最高级或序数词修饰时,用 that不用which引导。如:
This is the best place that I have ever visited.
The second question that is asked is why we don't fall off the earth.
②先行词为little,much,all,none,few,(the)one, something,everything,nothing,anything等不定代词时,用that引导。如:
There is nothing in the world that can frighten him.
③先行词既有指人的名词又有指物的名词时,用 that引导。如:
He told us about the people and the cities that he had visited.
④先行词前有any,all,no,few,every,some,little, much,(the)very,(the)only,(the)last等词修饰时,用 that引导。如:
This is the very coat that I need.
Is oxygen the only gas that helps fire burn?
⑤先行词为which时,为了避免重复,用that引导。如:
Which is the book that you bought yesterday?
⑥先行词在从句中作表语时,常用that引导。如:
Shanghai is no longer the city that it used to be in the 1930's.
⑦当主句是There be...句型时,用that引导。
There are two tickets for the film that are for you two.