So, Grammarly is correcting me a lot on a phrase I tend to use, and I don’t entirely understand the difference.

On a sentence that expands upon a previous sentence in dialog, I tend to have a character say “Which means […]”

Grammarly wants to fix this to be “This means […]”

It’s become clear to me that I tend to use ‘which’ instead of ‘this’ when speaking, but I am not sure why one is preferred use over the other.

Can anyone offer me some insight? I already tried googling “which vs this”, but I got results for “which vs that” instead, which is an entirely different use case.

  • Dungeondaddyd20@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This means that when “which” introduces a subordinate clause it is treated as a conjunction, which means it can’t begin a sentence.