RE: Dubya style sentence formulation

[Matt Floyd <Floyd -at- ORsoftware -dot- com>]

In response to Matt Floyd's presidential-style sentence structure question
that we all have on occasion, APEERY -at- FAMILYDOLLAR>COM said:

I like the second option - why does it stink?


> "Select the Group Name that you want to change the item order for."
> 
> "Select the Group Name for which you want to change the item order."
> 
> 

I guess I am afraid of whiches since that Blair Which thing...

Thanks for all who posted with suggestions.  Without proper context, it was
difficult to answer my question.  I am trying to stay compact here, so I may
go with "whose", like Geoff Hart, Susan Guttman, and Auri Poso said:

"Select the Group Name whose item order you want to change."

Whose, in my mind, was always related to inanimate objects.  Thanks for the
clarification.  The that/which question does not really apply here, because
the words are not directly interchangeable in this phrase.  "..that item
order..."

Thanks again!

Matt Floyd




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