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R.L. Trask

“it is impossible to use that if the relative clause is non-restrictive – that is, if it does not serve to identify the thing under discussion, but only serves to provide more information about that thing. So, you must write the Suez Canal, which was opened in 1869, and you cannot write *the Suez Canal, that was opened in 1869.”

R.L. Trask, Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English
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