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Help the food critic finalize their rather scathing review of the amateur baking contest by choosing the correct phrase for each gap.

The annual village bake-off featured twelve spectacular fruitcakes, none of which could be cut with a standard kitchen knife. The head judge glared at the four amateur bakers, all of whom were desperately trying to hide their suspiciously store-bought packaging.

The annual village bake-off featured twelve spectacular fruitcakes, none of which could be cut with a standard kitchen knife.

Because there are twelve fruitcakes (more than two), we use the quantifier "none" instead of "neither." We must use the relative pronoun "which" rather than "them" to connect the clauses; using "none of them" would create a grammatically incorrect comma splice.

The head judge glared at the four amateur bakers, all of whom were desperately trying to hide their suspiciously store-bought packaging.

Following a preposition like "of," we must use the object pronoun "whom" when referring to people. "All of who" is grammatically incorrect, and "all of those" would create a comma splice.

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