Insist on it that
He insisted on it that he might go with me.
Is the above grammatically correct?
The teacher said the noun clauses which start with that can't follow the preposition "on" but can be corrected by inserting "it" before the "that clause..."
I saw the above on YouTube video about prepositions.
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Jigneshbharati He insisted on it that he might go with me. Is the above grammatically correct? To me, this feels like literary English from an old book.
- Jigneshbharati He insisted on it that he might go with me.
- Is the above grammatically correct?
- To me, this feels like literary English from an old book.
- It is not modern conversational English.
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JigneshbharatiHe insisted on it that he might go with me.
Is the above grammatically correct?
To me, this feels like literary English from an old book. It is not modern conversational English.
0JigneshbharatiHe insisted on it that he might go with me.
Is the above grammatically correct?
Yes.
JigneshbharatiThe teacher said the noun clauses which start with that can't follow the preposition "on" but can be corrected by inserting "it" before the "that clause..."
That sounds a correct bit of advice
0JigneshbharatiHe insisted on it that he might go with me.
Is the above grammatically correct?
Just to clarify my previous answer. "He insisted on it that ~" is not in itself necessarily old-fashioned-sounding. The flavour of your sentence is dictated more by the combination of this and the "that he might" wording.
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