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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
That
"In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the prime minister said there should be no “safe spaces for terrorists to communicate” or that British authorities could not access." (By James Ball.)
Is "that' a pronoun or conjunction in the above sentence?
Is "that' a pronoun or conjunction in the above sentence?
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It seems like there is an error in the sentence.
the prime minister said there should be no “safe spaces for terrorists to communicate that British authorities could not access."
the prime minister said there should be no “safe spaces for terrorists to communicate that British authorities could not access."
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It presumably must be a relative pronoun referring to "safe spaces", but the fact that "safe spaces" is within the quotation and "that" is outside is slightly offputting.
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