Help me to this question about English grammar
I'll firstly write the sentence that I have a problem with...
Advanced technology has contributed to unhealthy levels of stress and created weapons capable of destroying in a flash everything that human beings have managed to achieve throughout history.
So in this sentence, I learned that I can't use relative pronoun "which" after everthing, but why is that??? why i can only put "that" instead of ''which"????? Could someone explain this to me clearly??
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You can use either 'that' or 'which' in this sentence. Both are equally correct.
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Well, this is a long compound sentence, so you need to put commas!
Both that and which are correct, however, if you put "which" you should put a comma after it because it is a long sentence, while "that" you use don't need to ^^
If you wanna learn more about Grammar and punctuation, read : The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation ^-^
I will explain for you why which is preferable in your case:
"Which" is used in writing English more than "that", plus it used often in texts (narrative, descriptive, argumentative...) while "that" is more preferable when you are reporting a speech.
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The other answers are good. I would suggest simplifying the sentence:
Advanced technology has contributed to unhealthy levels of stress in human beings. It has also created weapons capable of destroying, in a flash, everything that they have managed to achieve throughout their history.
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