I would like to know which is correct.
I feel quite annoyed when I hear, as I so often do, sentences such as: 'People that speak like this...' and 'the person that did it...'
I was taught at school, "that is for inanimate objects and
who is for people".
Therefore, the above should be: 'People who speak like this...' and 'the person who did it...'
But is that correct?
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