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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

That

"Often any two of tense, aspect, and mood (or all three) may be conveyed by a single grammatical construction, but this system may not be complete in that not all possible combinations may have an available construction." (Wikipedia.)

Is "that" a pronoun in the sentence above?
  

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Anonymous in that It's a conjunction. com/dictionary/british/in-that

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silak12 Anonymousin thatIt's a conjunction.http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/in-that
I don't think that "that" in the sentence I put in my post is a conjunction. In my opinion, it's a pronoun followed by the ellipted conjunction "that
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The phrase(in that) as a whole is a subordinating conjunction.
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silak12The phrase(in that) as a whole is a subordinating conjunction.
What about "that" in "in that"? What word class is it?
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AnonymousWhat about "that" in "in that"? What word class is it?
in [that not all possible combinations may have an available construction]

It looks to me like 'that' is a complementizer (also traditionally called a conjunction) that introduces a content clause complement of the preposition 'in'. Needless to say, clause complements of prepositi
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CalifJim'that' is a complementizer (also traditionally called a conjunction) that introduces a content clause complement of the preposition 'in'
I see. Thank you very much for the explanation.
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