I WAS always taught in school by my English teacher that you referred to humans as ‘who’ and everything else as ‘that’.
Simple enough. But what about ghosts?
I ask because I was about to send off a page with a headline that read “We’re the ghosts that haunt hotels”.
So are ghosts human or not and how does this grammatical rule apply to them?
In the end I changed it to ‘who’ to respect the dead.
Ironically, the headline was for a column written by Colin Baker, pictured, the former Doctor Who actor.
I agree – ‘Doctor That’ just wouldn’t work, would it?
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