A preposition before "that"
Hello everybody. I have bumped into a sentence which looks odd to me while reading the plot summary of the game.
- Machinarium is notable in that it contains no dialogue, spoken or written, and apart from a few tutorial prompts on the first screen, is devoid of understandable language entirely.
The problem is with the part containing "in that", I have never seen a preposition used before that and believed it to be bad grammar. The article is from Wikipedia, so it is likely to be correct I guess. Could you please tell me why the preposition "in" is acceptable in this example? Thanks in advance!
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"In that" in this context is an idiomatic expression, which means that it is not susceptible of grammatical analysis. It means "for the reason that".
- "In that" in this context is an idiomatic expression, which means that it is not susceptible of grammatical analysis.
- It means "for the reason that".
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"In that" in this context is an idiomatic expression, which means that it is not susceptible of grammatical analysis. It means "for the reason that".
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'in that' may be considered an idiom.
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