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Scottish Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Is this sentence correct below "that" is coming before when? please make me understand!
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor, each morning the Devil says: Oh crap she is up.
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It is not correct English. "that when" is not necessarily incorrect in itself: the "when" clause can be interpreted as parenthetical (though commas around it would help, and the comma after "floor" messes up the flow). g.
- It is not correct English.
- "that when" is not necessarily incorrect in itself: the "when" clause can be interpreted as parenthetical (though commas around it would help, and the comma after "floor" messes up the flow).
- g.
- ", which you may be able to see is incorrectly formed.
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It is not correct English. "that when" is not necessarily incorrect in itself: the "when" clause can be interpreted as parenthetical (though commas around it would help, and the comma after "floor" messes up the flow). This in itself is allowable, e.g. "A bore is the kind of person who, when he is asked how he is, tells you", although it is easy to create awkward sentences in this way, However
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