Found out that how
Hello...
A. He found (out) that how helpful it was to the company.
B. He found (out) that how helpful it was to the company affects the whole project.
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In the above, I feel that A is not grammatical unless "that" is omitted, and B is grammatical with "that".
This is only a non-native's assumption.
I wonder what the native's senses are...
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pructus In the above, I feel that A is not grammatical unless "that" is omitted, and B is grammatical with "that". Correct. By the way, as I read it, B is an example of "a garden-path sentence" (from the idiom "to lead someone down the garden path" — to mislead or deceive someone).
- pructus In the above, I feel that A is not grammatical unless "that" is omitted, and B is grammatical with "that".
- Correct.
- By the way, as I read it, B is an example of "a garden-path sentence" (from the idiom "to lead someone down the garden path" — to mislead or deceive someone).
- It sounds completely wrong until you get to "affects".
- Then you have to go back and read it again from the beginning to make sense of it.
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pructusIn the above, I feel that A is not grammatical unless "that" is omitted, and B is grammatical with "that".
Correct.
By the way, as I read it, B is an example of "a garden-path sentence" (from the idiom "to lead someone down the garden path" — to mislead or deceive someone).
It sounds completely wrong until you get to "affects". Then
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