<p>If there was an SAT question in improving the sentence that contained the part:</p>
<p>"...the protesters that..." and "that" was underlined, would you pick that as incorrect?</p>
<p>If the pronoun that "that" or "which" is refering back to is not strictly a person, but can represent a group of entities, then that or which's use is justified right?</p>
<p>"that" is indeed the incorrect part of the sentence, it should be "who"</p>
<p>so you would use "who" when referring to any person or persons?</p>
<p>Yes, always use "who" for people.</p>
<p>Another note, "which" almost always takes a comma before it, so if only the "that" were underlined, and not the word before it, there would be no way to use "which" since there's no way to insert a comma in the underlined portion.</p>
<p>Does that make sense? Must drink more coffee...</p>
<p>Pete</p>
<p>No, that and who can be used interchangeably when talking about people. It is only which that cannot be used interchangably and must refer to animals or nonliving entities. If you don't believe me, review some prep books talking about usage.</p>
<p>Anymore comments on this?</p>
<p>So would "the train conductor that was standing on the platform" be correct?</p>
<p>Dictionary.com says:</p>
<p>That, pronoun:</p>
<p>4.(used as the subject or object of a relative clause, esp. one defining or restricting the antecedent, sometimes replaceable by who, whom, or which): the horse that he bought.</p>
<p>We need the full sentence.</p>
<p>Actually, in modern English, "that" can be used as a pronoun to refer to a type of person or class of person, but I've never seen that particular use on the SAT or ACT. The only way I've seen "that" vs. "who" tested is when it should clearly be "who". For the purposes of the test, use "who" to refer to people and you won't go wrong.</p>
<p>Il Bandito, since train conductor is a type of person, you could use "that", but "who" is more generally used, and personally, I think it's the better choice.</p>
<p>That usage makes sense to me.</p>
<p>SAT usage would prefer who</p>