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Liveinjapan Posted 13 years ago
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That

All that is would not be all that is without you.

'That' is a pronoun, not a relative pronoun, correct?

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Liveinjapan 'That' is a pronoun, not a relative pronoun, correct? All that is would not be all that is without you. The construction of the sentence sounds a little clumsy to my ear.

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  • Liveinjapan 'That' is a pronoun, not a relative pronoun, correct?
  • All that is would not be all that is without you.
  • The construction of the sentence sounds a little clumsy to my ear.
  • The first "that" is correcet.
  • It is a pronoun, but I have doubt about the use of the second.
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Liveinjapan'That' is a pronoun, not a relative pronoun, correct?

All that is would not be all that is without you.

The construction of the sentence sounds a little clumsy to my ear. The first "that" is correcet. It is a pronoun, but I have doubt about the use of the second.
I would rephrase it to: All that would not be poss
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Thank you, GF.

'All that is' is a construction often used by this speaker, and according to him, it refers to '***' or other divine simbols, or even all of us. The sentence is just an example, and is the construction of the words 'All that is' correct? (must be correct since he is a native speaker of English) And in this particular construction, 'that' is not a relative pronoun, co
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LiveinjapanThank you, GF.
'All that is' is a construction often used by this speaker, and according to him, it refers to '***' or other divine simbols
I am not too familiar with ***'s words. If this is a divine reference, I am not familiar with it. Who is " this speaker ?"
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Thank you. Again, my question's this: Is 'that' as in 'all that is' a pronoun, not a relative pronoun? (In your rephrased example, which doesn't seem to make sense, 'that' works as a relative pronoun. )
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Liveinjapan(In your rephrased example, which doesn't seem to make sense, 'that' works as a relative pronoun. )
Religious reference aside, let's review what I wrote:
All that would not be possible without you. All That - is the pronoun for my
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Liveinjapan'That' is a pronoun, not a relative pronoun, correct?
No. It's a relative pronoun in both cases.

All that is (= Everything that exists) has the same grammatical structure as water which flows or time which passes or children who succeed.

CJ
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Liveinjapan(must be correct since he is a native speaker of English)
Very few native speakers speak or write 'correctly' all the time.

Writer of, for example, works on psychology, sociology, religious ideas and 'How to succeed in business.life/etc' books often use words and phrases in ways that most of us don't use them normally.
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Okay, I got it. Thanks so much all of you!
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