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FilthyPazuzu Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Superfluous "that"?

In this sentence:
It saddens me that so many people are unaware the storm, Nemo, wasn't named after a fish.
Is the word "that" necessary? If I do exclude it, should I replace the word "so" with "how"?
  

Top answer

That is optional, but I would not omit it. And there is no reason to replace so with how . ———————————————————————————————————————— The sentence has other problems.

— RandomGuy

  • That is optional, but I would not omit it.
  • And there is no reason to replace so with how .
  • ———————————————————————————————————————— The sentence has other problems.
  • Is this what you mean?
  • It saddens me that so many people are unaware of the storm [no comma] Nemo, which wasn’t named after a fish.
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That is optional, but I would not omit it. And there is no reason to replace so with how.

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The sentence has other problems. Is this what you mean?

It saddens me that so many people are unaware of the storm [no comma] Nemo, which wasn’t named after a fish.
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That's what I thought. Thank you for settling that argument. Score one for me!
But I'm unsure about your restructuring of my original sentence. I wasn't writing about people being unaware of the storm, I was writing about people being unaware that the name "Nemo" didn't first appear in the movie Finding Nemo. There's a lot of misplaced outrage right now that The Weather Channel named a
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