'I argued with mike, who caused everyone to leave early' is wrong?
My english book says this sentence is wrong because 'which' should be instead of 'who'
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Michael Smith is correct.
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It is wrong beacuse "who" is reffering to a single person but the word is reffering to "everyone", so it should be "which"
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"I argued with mike, who caused everyone to leave early"
Yes, the "who" refers to Mike so you *would * think it is correct. The problem is, it is not very natural sounding. If someone said that to me, I would understand that they meant Mike caused everyone to leave. But as a native speaker I would never say that. It is just awkward. I would reword it in some different manner. As an example, something like, "I had an argument with Mike and he was such a pain that everyone left early."
So the answer the book gave you is correct.
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It's not wrong. It just has a different meaning. "... argued with Mike, who caused ..." means that it was Mike who caused the mass departure, whereas " ...argued with Mike, which caused ... " means that it was the argument which caused the departure. Does that help?
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