Timeline for This 'that' is a relative pronoun or a pronoun?
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 18:29 | history | edited | ColleenV |
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: Dang! Three consecutive instances without needing to fall back on the old "use + mention" trick! | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers Well, it's nice to have names for the three (or four) different thats if you're going to talk about them: "He said that that that she offered was inadequate". | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 16:16 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: Ah, that's it! I knew there would be a more precise term - that's why I put "relative pronoun" in scare quotes. Not that it's obvious to me how familiarity with such terminology would help anyone actually learn English. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 14:54 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers A demonstrative pronoun I think: the relative pronoun is omitted by whiz-deletion. | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 14:52 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 12, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd say the second instance of that in your example must be a "relative pronoun", in that syntactically it's substituting as an alternative reference to preceding the problem. Note that you can even have two consecutive occurrences of that (one as a "conjunction", one as a "relative pronoun") in contexts like He insulted my mother. It was that that upset me (but that's a bit awkward, so we'd usually switch to ...that which upset me). | |
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| Feb 12, 2019 at 13:54 | history | asked | Suh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |