Discussion
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
The information which he gave was found to be accurate.
Answer: C
Correct answer: No correction required
The sentence is already correct. Which is a legitimate relative pronoun for a thing, and the clause which he gave properly modifies the information. The distinction sometimes urged between that and which - that for defining clauses and which for non-defining ones set off by commas - is a matter of style rather than of grammar, and both are accepted in a defining clause with no comma, as here. So that he gave is an alternative, not a correction. What he gave is wrong because what cannot follow an expressed antecedent; it means the thing which and would duplicate the information. He gave it creates two main clauses joined by nothing, a run-on sentence. Note also that information is uncountable, so informations and an information are both wrong - a separate point often tested with the same noun.
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