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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
superlative and that
Given the sentence:
It was lucky that Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst thing that had happened to him so far.
The relative ‘that’ after the superlative ‘the worst’ seems to have the meaning of ‘of all that.’
If yes, is ‘that’ the short form of ‘of all that’?
It was lucky that Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst thing that had happened to him so far.
The relative ‘that’ after the superlative ‘the worst’ seems to have the meaning of ‘of all that.’
If yes, is ‘that’ the short form of ‘of all that’?
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’If yes, is ‘that’ the short form of ‘of all that’? the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst [ thing that had happened to him so far ] .
- ’If yes, is ‘that’ the short form of ‘of all that’?
- the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst [ thing that had happened to him so far ] .
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eipjooThe relative ‘that’ after the superlative ‘the worst’ seems to have the meaning of ‘of all that.’If yes, is ‘that’ the short form of ‘of all that’?No, that is not a short form; 'that' introduces a standard relative clause modifying 'thing':
...the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst [thing that had happened to him so far]
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eipjooThe relative ‘that’ after the superlative ‘the worst’ seems to have the meaning of ‘of all that.’Sort of. I would paraphrase it as "the worst thing of all those thingsthat had happened to him so far". If there is a worst thing, then more than one thing must be involved somehow; more than one thing must have happened from which we can choose the
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