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Taka Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Which

It is not whether technology is used (or not) which makes the difference.


What does the "which" refer to? "Technology"? or something else?

  

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I think "which" refers to the situation where technology is used and the one where it is not used.

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I think "which" refers to the situation where technology is used and the one where it is not used.

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It is not [whether technology is used (or not)] which makes the difference.


This is a cleft construction, where the underlined expression is a relative clause.

The function of "which" is subject of the relative clause, where it refers to the bracketed interrogative clause "whether technology is used or not" (called the 'antecedent').

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