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Jobb Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

It is... that

Context:
You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others.

I could not understand the sentence well. The normal sentence is:

you can't tell me: it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others that on the day that we went into that war and it started?






context:
You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others. That's it. And today, we are 90 percent of the casualties and 90 percent of the costs. And meanwhile, North Korea has got nuclear weapons.
  

Top answer

Hi Jobb, You're examining the Bush Kerry Debate speech. html KERRY: You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others. That's it.

  • Hi Jobb, You're examining the Bush Kerry Debate speech.
  • html KERRY: You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others.
  • That's it.
  • And today, we are 90 percent of the casualties and 90 percent of the costs.
  • And meanwhile, North Korea has got nuclear weapons.
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Hi Jobb,

You're examining the Bush Kerry Debate speech.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/debatereferee/debate_0930.html
KERRY: You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was princi
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From your explanation, I understood what caused the problem in understanding the seemingly simple sentence.

Here is another question:
BUSH: But because Tommy Franks did such a great job in planning the operation, we moved rapidly, and a lot of the Baathists and Saddam loyalists laid down their arms and disappeared. I thought they would stay and fight, but they didn't.
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Hi Jobb,

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/politics/campaign/01dtext.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

Another link to the transcript.

I think what President Bush was saying is that he expected a battle when he e

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