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Kine Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
That-dilemma
Okay, do any of you have the functions of 'that' nailed down? Because I don't. I need to figure out what 'that' is in these two sentences.
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"I don't see why anthropologists feel that they have to travel to remote corners of the world and get dysentery in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when the weirdest, most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep."
So far I've written that it's a relative pronoun in a restrictive relative clause, but I am in no way certain...
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"Her minute observation of the way we talk, dress, eat, drink, work, play, shop, drive, flirt, fight, queue – and moan about it all – exposes the hidden rules that we all unconsciously obey."
This one I have no idea, I think it looks exactly the same... Help, anyone?
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"I don't see why anthropologists feel that they have to travel to remote corners of the world and get dysentery in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when the weirdest, most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep."
So far I've written that it's a relative pronoun in a restrictive relative clause, but I am in no way certain...
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"Her minute observation of the way we talk, dress, eat, drink, work, play, shop, drive, flirt, fight, queue – and moan about it all – exposes the hidden rules that we all unconsciously obey."
This one I have no idea, I think it looks exactly the same... Help, anyone?
Top answer
1. that is a complementizer. It introduces the clause that acts as the direct object of the verb feel .
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- that is a complementizer.
- It introduces the clause that acts as the direct object of the verb feel .
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- that is a relative pronoun.
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1. that is a complementizer. It introduces the clause that acts as the direct object of the verb feel.
2. that is a relative pronoun. It introduces the relative clause that modifies the noun rules.
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2. that is a relative pronoun. It introduces the relative clause that modifies the noun rules.
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