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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
That cities
Paris, Iraq… 2015 was the year that cities were burnt, innocent blood was spilt and countries destroyed by brutal terrorist groups.
What is the grammatical function of "that" here?
What is the grammatical function of "that" here?
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Jigneshbharati Is it a relative pronoun modifying "cities"?Yes, it's a relative pronoun, but it doesn't modify anything. Relative pronouns do not modify. They stand in for their antecedents. The antecedent is "year" in this case. The whole clause which begins with the relative pronoun is what modifies, and it modifies the antecedent "year".
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