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So I am trying to perfect my SCs and I still seem to be unsure about the use of "that" rather than a gerund or nothing.
I am reading my MGMAT SC bible and it says that "that" is an essential modifier.
Non essential: To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house, "which" is red.
Essential To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house "that" is red.
So I understand it with a simple sentence like this, but with a more complicated one it gets confusing and I lose sense of if a essential or non essential is necessary.
Which is easy to identify as being used correctly because it has to reference only a noun directly in front of it, but "that" vs gerund vs nothing I guess is a little more confusing.
What is the rule for "that"?
Are the steps,
1) determine if "which" should be used,
2) see if there are two independent clauses that don't need "that"
3) if there is an depedent clause followed by an indep. then "that" is needed?
I am reading my MGMAT SC bible and it says that "that" is an essential modifier.
Non essential: To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house, "which" is red.
Essential To find my house, walk down the left side of the street until you reach the third house "that" is red.
So I understand it with a simple sentence like this, but with a more complicated one it gets confusing and I lose sense of if a essential or non essential is necessary.
Which is easy to identify as being used correctly because it has to reference only a noun directly in front of it, but "that" vs gerund vs nothing I guess is a little more confusing.
What is the rule for "that"?
Are the steps,
1) determine if "which" should be used,
2) see if there are two independent clauses that don't need "that"
3) if there is an depedent clause followed by an indep. then "that" is needed?
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