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Re:How language gives your brain a break by jessaustin on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @03:06PM (#10005523) 

  s/which/that/
Sorry, but that drives me crazy. I think your "verb+prep" gives the game away, as that is very common idiom. What about this: "That's the store we got the candy from." Perhaps a sentence using "where" would be more stylish, but you can't very well throw out a prescription of grammar just to immediately replace it with one of style.
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Re:How language gives your brain a break by igravious on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @03:39PM (#10005725)
Do you mean where I said, "which is not in question form..." I should've said, "that is not in question form..." My inner ear is not ringing any alarm bells there. Care to explain?

I like your example. Never mind about style. I can riff on that: "There's the table we put the apple on.", "Here's the bag I keep my laptop in." And so on. Nice!

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Re:How language gives your brain a break by jessaustin on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:02PM (#10006267)
I would have sworn that your "verb that just so happens" was once something like "verb which just so happens". Hmmm.
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