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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
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Is "that" both a relative pronoun and relative adverb in the The year that I was born?
  

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tkacka15 Is "that" both a relative pronoun and relative adverb in the The year that I was born? Essentially, yes, but be careful to distinguish between 'category' and 'function'. As a word category (part of speech) ,"that" is a subordinator .

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  • tkacka15 Is "that" both a relative pronoun and relative adverb in the The year that I was born?
  • Essentially, yes, but be careful to distinguish between 'category' and 'function'.
  • As a word category (part of speech) ,"that" is a subordinator .
  • Its function in your example is that of 'adjunct of time' .
  • JohnS
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tkacka15Is "that" both a relative pronoun and relative adverb in the The year that I was born?
Essentially, yes, but be careful to distinguish between 'category' and 'function'.

As a word category (part of speech) ,"that" is a subordinator. Its function in your example is that of 'adjunct of time'.

JohnS
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Thanks for the reply.
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tkacka15Is "that" both a relative pronoun and relative adverb in the The year that I was born?
It probably doesn’t hurt to think of it that way, but strictly speaking it’s a subordinator. As such, its function is to mark the clause as subordinate, just as in declarative content clauses. Like in the year I was born, the relative element and the adjunct a
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Aspara Gus In the year (that) I was born in, that is still strictly a subordinator, not a pronoun, as attested by the fact that it can’t occur as complement within a fronted relative phrase: the year in which/that I was born.
I see. Thanks for the reply.
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