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- How do you handle that that? The double that problem
Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this? For me, I never knew whether it was accep
- pronouns - When to use “that” and when to use “which”, especially in . . .
Actually, there's more to this than mentioned in some other answers The word that is a subordinator; it is not a relative word like who, where, when, or which Even in integrated relative clauses, they are not always interchangeable When the relative construction follows a fronted preposition, only relative words will do, so relative pronoun which is available, but that isn't We have to
- grammar - When to use this or that? - English Language Usage . . .
Hello, Drflash55, and welcome to English Language Usage Your answer seems to be heavily weighted toward personal opinion as opposed to objective analysis—but this site especially prizes answers that have an identifiable basis in verifiable fact rather than just opinion Please consider strengthening your answer by citing some independent authority that draws the same general conclusion
- How to avoid that that that that is so very awkward
In all seriousness, are there any common patterns or strategies people use to avoid having to write a sentence in which "that that" appears? For example: Evidential decision theory recommends ta
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is usually said that who is used for people (and sometimes animals) while that is used to refer to objects In actual usage, though, both who and that can be used to refer to persons, sometimes to animals, and sometimes to entities that consist of people The dog who that chewed the bone chased the cat The person who that stole my purse used all my credit cards The group who that went
- that + would = thatd? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is "that'd" an appropriate contraction of "that" and "would"? I say it, but I'm not sure if it's a legitimate contraction in written form
- Is my use of that that in this sentence gramaticaly correct
Grammatically it is correct The first 'that' would be a conjunction; something like 'I thought that' or 'I feel that' The second 'that' would be a pronoun, such as 'that wasn't a thing' or 'that was no longer acceptable' Structured together would be: I thought that that wasn't a thing anymore I thought that that was no longer acceptable If it bothers you, you can usually remove one of the
- Is it grammatically acceptable to start a sentence with That that. . . ?
@Catija The two are inextricably connected—you can't separate them like that Ungrammaticality is nothing but clumsiness or awkwardness to a not-precisely-definable-but-more-than-just-clumsy degree To me, ‘that that’ in the sense ‘that which’ is on the ungrammatical side of the line, but it's not far from the merely clumsy side To others (like you, it would seem) it is sure to fall
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