Timeline for What is the function of "that" in the following sentences?
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| Jan 12, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | BillJ | In the third example, the subordinate relative clause is that winter break started, where "that" is the object of "started". | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 19:39 | comment | added | BillJ | Oh dear, Isobella! "That" belongs to the same category in all three examples, i.e. that of 'subordinator', though most people call it a relative pronoun. In I don't regret being the jerk that I was, "that" is not the subject of the relative clause, but the predicative complement of "was" ("I was the jerk" ). And "that" most certainly can be object of a relative clause, as in I have the key that she found, where "that" is the object of "found". In Was it me that you said it to?" (no comma required, btw), "that" is object of the preposition "to". | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 7:48 | vote | accept | Chang Baek | ||
| Jan 10, 2017 at 22:49 | history | answered | Bella Pines | CC BY-SA 3.0 |