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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

That this government

These schemes gave the poor a feeling this government thinks about the person who is on struggling to hold onto the last rung of the ladder. That this government thinks about the people who are needy and deprived.
'We have become bigger than the Congress in UP'
What is the grammatical form and function of "that"?

  

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Jigneshbharati What is the grammatical form and function of "that"? It's a complementizer. It introduces a content clause.

  • Jigneshbharati What is the grammatical form and function of "that"?
  • It's a complementizer.
  • It introduces a content clause.
  • In your excerpt the content clause is written as a sentence fragment.
  • The structure is really like this: ...
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JigneshbharatiWhat is the grammatical form and function of "that"?

It's a complementizer. It introduces a content clause. In your excerpt the content clause is written as a sentence fragment. The structure is really like this:

... feeling (that) this government thinks about ...

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