How is "that" used here?
This medical nature of the Islamic hospital was embodied in a number of qualities, namely, that it was designed and managed by educated Galenic physicians.
What is the usage of "that" in the above sentence?
Is it in apposition to "a number of qualities"?
Thanks a lot.
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This medical nature of the Islamic hospital was embodied in a number of qualities, namely, that it was designed and managed by educated Galenic physicians . In you example, "that" is a clause subordinator. I wouldn’t say that this is an appositive construction, for appositive modifiers are virtually always noun phrases.
- This medical nature of the Islamic hospital was embodied in a number of qualities, namely, that it was designed and managed by educated Galenic physicians .
- In you example, "that" is a clause subordinator.
- I wouldn’t say that this is an appositive construction, for appositive modifiers are virtually always noun phrases.
- The underlined expression is a supplementary clause in which “namely” acts as an “indicator” in that it indicates that the supplement has a specifying function: the qualities were that it was designed and managed by educated Galenic physicians.
- The clause subordinator “that” introduces the subordinate content clause, that it was designed ....
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This medical nature of the Islamic hospital was embodied in a number of qualities, namely, that it was designed and managed by educated Galenic physicians.
In you example, "that" is a clause subordinator.
I wouldn’t say that this is an appositive construction, for appositive modifiers are virtually always noun phrases.
The underlined expression is a supplem
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