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1. The cat is in my yard again. The cat has a broken leg

The cat, (which or that )has the broken leg, is in my yard again. NR

The above sentence is from Gmatclub Grammar book (Exercise-26). Is the above sentence correct?. When remove the additional information the meaning has changed. We are not sure which cat is in the yard again. Which relative pronoun should be used for animals ?

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The cat that has the broken leg is in my yard again .. we use "that" to specify the cat with the borken leg and not any other cat...

the cat , which has the broken leg, is in my yard again --> this means all cats have broken leg .. thats not correct .. So which cannot be used here.[/quote]

i didnt get your explanation of which. how does it implied that : "which has broken leg" meant for all cats?
pls explain in layman language.
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I was going through this and the answer given in Exercise 26 is NR (Not Restrictive), but since the cat we are referring to is the one with the broken leg, shouldn't this be a Restrictive clause? Also, in the text, it is stated that "that" can be used ONLY with restrictive clauses, but the answer states "that" while mentioning NR. Can someone please clarify this?

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