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Sandulack Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Relative pronoun

Which "that" is the relative pronoun in the following passage. Are they both relative pronouns?

"Welcome, fellow vertebrates.
If my greeting today sounds odd, it's because we're so used to having our skeletons inside us that we forget that for most of the animals on the planet, it's the other way around."

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sandulack Are they both relative pronouns? e, they are adjectives). What do each of your 'that' clauses modify, sandulack?

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  • sandulack Are they both relative pronouns?
  • e, they are adjectives).
  • What do each of your 'that' clauses modify, sandulack?
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sandulackAre they both relative pronouns?
Relative pronouns head clauses that modify nouns (i.e, they are adjectives). What do each of your 'that' clauses modify, sandulack?
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My guess was the first "that" can be omitted so it doesn't modify anything, it seems to act like a conjunction like "so" or "therefore". The second "that" can't be omitted so I think it referres back to "we're so used to having our skeletons inside us" .
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sandulackThe second "that" can't be omitted so I think it referres back to "we're so used to having our skeletons inside us"
So is it referring to a noun?
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Well, which word(s) do you think it refers to?
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It seems like the whole phrase does. If I had to narrow it, at a guess,"skeleton inside us"
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Not even close. You may be looking for a referent noun, but there is none. The 'that' clause tells us what we forget:

We forget what?
We forget that for most of the animals....

Neither 'that' is a relative pronoun.
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Which "that" tells us what we forget?
im having a hard time with this sentence Emotion: shake
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sandulackWhich "that" tells us what we forget?
The one I just gave you!
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I see. So what is the first "that" in the sentence if it's not a relative clause?
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