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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

That

"It serves him right! informal - something you say about a http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/bad thing that has http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/happen to a http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/person and that they http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/deserve:
So she http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/left_1 him, did she? Serves him right!"
(dictionary.cambridge.org)

Is "that" an object of the verb "deserve" in "...and that they deserve" in the above?
  

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I personally think it is slightly dubious whether relative pronouns are truly grammatical subjects and objects, but for the purposes of your question, yes. Semantically the ultimate object is "bad thing", of course. the bad thing has happened to a person they deserve the bad thing

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  • I personally think it is slightly dubious whether relative pronouns are truly grammatical subjects and objects, but for the purposes of your question, yes.
  • Semantically the ultimate object is "bad thing", of course.
  • the bad thing has happened to a person they deserve the bad thing
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I personally think it is slightly dubious whether relative pronouns are truly grammatical subjects and objects, but for the purposes of your question, yes.

Semantically the ultimate object is "bad thing", of course.

the bad thing has happened to a person
they deserve the bad thing
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