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Hi there,
Im not GMATNinja, but this is my understanding of the "who" vs "that" debate.
As a general rule, "who" refers to people, and "that" can refer to things and people.
Ex.
"There are people who wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
or
"There are people that wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
- In this second example "that" and "who" are both grammatically correct, and I would not confidently make a decision based on the who vs that. If there are any other aspects of the sentence which you could use to logically reason why one is more correct than the other I would do this. If referring to a person and this is the only decision point, pick who.
Hope this helps!
Im not GMATNinja, but this is my understanding of the "who" vs "that" debate.
As a general rule, "who" refers to people, and "that" can refer to things and people.
Ex.
"There are people who wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
or
"There are people that wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
- In this second example "that" and "who" are both grammatically correct, and I would not confidently make a decision based on the who vs that. If there are any other aspects of the sentence which you could use to logically reason why one is more correct than the other I would do this. If referring to a person and this is the only decision point, pick who.
Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
Im not GMATNinja, but this is my understanding of the "who" vs "that" debate.
As a general rule, "who" refers to people, and "that" can refer to things and people.
Ex.
"There are people who wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
or
"There are people that wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
- In this second example "that" and "who" are both grammatically correct, and I would not confidently make a decision based on the who vs that. If there are any other aspects of the sentence which you could use to logically reason why one is more correct than the other I would do this. If referring to a person and this is the only decision point, pick who.
Hope this helps!
Im not GMATNinja, but this is my understanding of the "who" vs "that" debate.
As a general rule, "who" refers to people, and "that" can refer to things and people.
Ex.
"There are people who wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
or
"There are people that wear blue swimsuits at the beach"
- In this second example "that" and "who" are both grammatically correct, and I would not confidently make a decision based on the who vs that. If there are any other aspects of the sentence which you could use to logically reason why one is more correct than the other I would do this. If referring to a person and this is the only decision point, pick who.
Hope this helps!
Thank you very much!
Here is an example that confused me a little bit
https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-use-of-lie-detectors-is-based-on-the-assumption-that-lying-produce-83581.html
And Genoa2000, I think you've answered your own question by referencing that OG question! There are very few black and white rules that we can apply consistently on the GMAT. And right when we think we've come up with a "rule" based past questions, the GMAT tends to break that rule. And then it laughs at us.
So if we have an official answer in which "that" is used for people ("an individual", in this case), then we know that we can't safely eliminate an option just because it uses "that" for people.
I hope that helps a bit!
