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JKBelieve Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Just General Grammar

Hi everyone ^^

ummmm I have two grammar questions... ^^


1. When can I take out 'that' from a sentence?

eg. I wanted her to think that I loved her -> I wanted her to think I loved her

Is this ok?


2. Should I put 'to' in these sentence?

- Can you explain to me how this works?
- Can you recommend to me a good book?
  

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The use of "that", as a relative pronoun is only obligatory to indicate coincidence between the object of the first clause and the subject of the second, thus a complex sentence based on two independent statements such as: "Here is the man. " There being coincidence between the objects of two independent statements, as for instance: "She is the girl. " However, it isn't obligatory.

— NON CONFORMER

  • The use of "that", as a relative pronoun is only obligatory to indicate coincidence between the object of the first clause and the subject of the second, thus a complex sentence based on two independent statements such as: "Here is the man.
  • " There being coincidence between the objects of two independent statements, as for instance: "She is the girl.
  • " However, it isn't obligatory.
  • Hope it helps.
  • NON C
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The use of "that", as a relative pronoun is only obligatory to indicate coincidence between the object of the first clause and the subject of the second, thus a complex sentence based on two independent statements such as:

"Here is the man. He works for my father."

Given the object/subject coincidence, I've reffered to, the following is obtained:

"Here is the man th
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Non-C: "The book that lies on the big table is blue." I'm not sure that you really meant "object of the first clause", did you?
CJ
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Ummmmmmm could you give me the answer to the second question as well?




Thanx anyway
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No problem. The correct forms are "explain to ..." and "recommend to ...". However, it is quite idiomatic to omit the prepositional phrase "to ...". ("for ..." is also a possibility for "explain" and, to a lesser degree, "recommend".) In most cases it is clear who the intended recipient is and therefore unnecessary to make it explicit.

From most to least idiomatic:
Can you ple
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You've been a lot of help lots and lots o' Thanks to ye. lolz..

Well I have just one more question.....-_-

What did you mean by 'Non-C: "The book that lies on the big table is blue." I'm not

sure that you really meant "object of the first clause", did you?'

Can you explain it (^^) so that I can go
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