Not that I am aware

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"I hope that you have not lost your sense of humor.""Not that I am aware."Is the second sentence a contracted form of "It's not that I am aware of it." ?

Avangi · Accepted Answer

Debpriya DeNot that I am aware.

You could say that.

I'd probably say it's a contraction of "I have not done so that I am aware of."

To say "It's not that I am aware of it" could be taken as implying that "it" is in fact something else.

Does your limp make you self-conscious? (reply) It's not that I'm aware of it. It's just that people keep staring.

(The respondant assumes the original speaker has a reason for asking the question - "it." )

In fact, in your substitute version, "it" has no antecedent.

"I hope that you have not lost your sense of humor" does not give us a suitable context for

"It's not that I'm aware of it."

Sorry, I should have just said "No!" - A.

Debpriya De · Answer

Avangi,

I couldn't understand the sentence that you suggested.

"I have not done so that I am aware of." Is "that" referring to "so" as in a relative clause or is "so that" a conjunction here?

Avangi · Answer

Debpriya DeI have not done so that I am aware of.

They're all idioms, to a degree.

In the expression "to do so," the "so" refers to a previously described action.

The split in my sentence comes between "so" and "that." You could put a comma there, but I chose not to.

I'd say that the "that" refers to the whole main clause, "I have not done so."

It's something like: I don't recall that I did that = I didn't do that, that I recall.

Debpriya De · Answer

So is it like the relative clauses with "which", in which "which" refers to an entire clause as in "He fired his secretary, which was expected." ?

Avangi · Answer

Yes.

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