"which" vs "this"
"which" vs "this"
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.
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I'm hungry, which means I should eat.
Or
I'm hungry. That means I should eat.
If you're getting pinged for using "which" wrong, it's probably because you are using a period before "which" instead of a comma, which I've shown above.
This means that when "which" introduces a subordinate clause it is treated as a conjunction, which means it can't begin a sentence.