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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

"in that" as a conjunction

Could you please help me correct the whole sentence please?

1 You are selffish in that you want to buy me something that will put us in financial difficulty.

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There's nothing in your sentence that actually needs correcting (apart from the spelling of selfish). "In that" is an idiomatic compound preposition , roughly meaning "for the reason that" or simply "because". ", which is functioning as an adjunct (adverbial) of reason.

— BillJ

  • There's nothing in your sentence that actually needs correcting (apart from the spelling of selfish).
  • "In that" is an idiomatic compound preposition , roughly meaning "for the reason that" or simply "because".
  • ", which is functioning as an adjunct (adverbial) of reason.
  • BillJ
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There's nothing in your sentence that actually needs correcting (apart from the spelling of selfish). "In that" is an idiomatic compound preposition, roughly meaning "for the reason that" or simply "because". It's used here as the head of the preposition phrase "in that you want to buy me something...", which is functioning as an adjunct (adverbial) of reason.

BillJ
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