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New2grammar Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

that/it

She always calls to have me connect her to people who are staying in the next room or who are in a hotel two streets over. I remember I thought [that/it] was the weirdest thing, calling from Paris to New York to have someone connect you to someone in Paris.

Are both choices correct?

Thanks in advance!
  

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Hi, Yes. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Yes.
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Both are correct, but I prefer it because that is ambiguous on first reading as to whether it's relative that or demonstrative that (thatrel, thatdem). Only after reading further can we tell that it is demonstative that. That is, thought that is normally interpreted as thought thatrel, but it can't be inter
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