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How to use that

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Can any one explain why "that" in the sentence used for? Is it a noun clause, or relative clause?

(It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.)

If it is possible, could you explain the "that" in the sentecence blow, too?

(I had thought of so many different ways of spending our money, that we did not know what to buy with it.)

  

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class car 637 1) Can any one explain why what "that" in the sentence is used for? Is it a noun clause, or relative clause? Neither.

— CalifJim

  • class car 637 1) Can any one explain why what "that" in the sentence is used for?
  • Is it a noun clause, or relative clause?
  • Neither.
  • It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America [no comma] that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
  • 2) If it is possible, could you explain the "that" in the sentecence blow, sentence below, too?
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class car 637

1) Can any one explain why what "that" in the sentence is used for? Is it a noun clause, or relative clause? Neither.

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial w

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I think it's preferable to call clausal "that" a subordinator rather than a complementizer, since the content clauses that it introduces are not always complements -- they can also be adjuncts:

What has happened that you are looking so worried?

"This is my security pass" he said, holding it high that all might see it.

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