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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

That clause

Hello
Can you ,please give an example of a sentence where the preposition `that` cannot be deleted.
For example:
She said that she is hungry.
She said she is hungry.
Here `that `can be deleted.

Thank you
  

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That is a conjunction in your sentence. That you want to learn about situations where you can't omit "that" in a sentence is obvious to everyone reading this thread. (you can't omit the first that in this sentence)

  • That is a conjunction in your sentence.
  • That you want to learn about situations where you can't omit "that" in a sentence is obvious to everyone reading this thread.
  • (you can't omit the first that in this sentence)
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That is a conjunction in your sentence.

That you want to learn about situations where you can't omit "that" in a sentence is obvious to everyone reading this thread. (you can't omit the first that in this sentence)
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Do you mean the conjunction "that"?

See senses 2a and 2b, and the example phrases, at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/that[2 ] (add the closing square bracket to the URL manually). These are different senses to your e

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