Is this sentence grammatically correct?

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I was never quite sure of the rules for the dash, but in my opinion the sentence is okay. The form is:
"I would like to say that you're beautiful and alluring -- that you're dazzling."

Best regards, - A.

Thanks for replying.

The difference that makes the sentence I quoted harder for me to understand is that the part after th

Hi,

I found this sentence on the internet and the em dash and the conjunction 'that' both confuse me:




'I must relate that I've never met a person whose intellect I respected or whose philosophical learning was more than amateur -- that I never knew such a person to take Nietzsche seriously.'

I'd like to comment that I find this sentence unsa

'I must relate that I've never met a person whose intellect I respected or whose philosophical learning was more than amateur -- that I never knew such a person to take Nietzsche seriously.'

Hmmm, you ask me about the dash and the "that" conjunction, and whether the grammar is correct - now you're gonna hit me with symantics?

Hello,

In the first part personA is talking about Nietzche

dash and "that"

In this part author talks about personA.

This is very common usage in the books." That " is a kind of tailing of writer's feelings ideas,it is like writer/author starts talking from 3rd mouth in the book.

I hope this may help.

sunsail In the first part personA is talking about Nietzsche

You know, you may have a point there. I wonder if prior context would reveal the first part to be a Nietzsche quote and the second part to be a humorous retort?
CJ has a Nietzsche quote on his avatar. I wonder if they ever met? Well, I guess not. He died a year before I was born.

I also don't find the sentence satisfactory, but I think (although I could be way off base) that the author meant "[any person I've ever met who falls into the category of being intellectual and having more than an amateur understanding] didn't take Nietzsche seriously."

What he wrote was that he never met anyone who fell into that category at all. It would take a pretty conceited person

Grammar Geek It would take a pretty conceited person to think he'd never met such a person, wouldn't it?

That's why I thought the words might be Nietzsche's.

Abraxas25
'I must relate that I've never met a person whose intellect I respected or whose philosophical learning was more than amateur -- that I never knew such a person to take Nietzsche seriously.'

I hate this sentence. The dash could be okay, but the entire sentence is pompous and awkward. It is designed to prove that the writer is int

'I must relate that I've never met a person whose intellect I respected or whose philosophical learning was more than amateur -- that I never knew such a person to take Nietzsche seriously.'

Well,
I do not know where this text was taken,it would be nice to know that.Probably it's from a book,fiction,play,radio play etc

I imagined 2 scenarios,let's say all these people are i