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SpoonfedBaby Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

The REASON WHY

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00 I found this sentence in the 02span01span00 dictionary:02br
01b00The REASON WHY grass is green was a mystery to the little boy02b00.02span02br
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01span00Can I say "01b00the REASON grass is green was a mystery to the little boy02b00?"02br
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00 ( A ) that is the reason why I am happy,02br
00 ( B ) that is why I am happy,02br
00 ( C ) that is the reason I am happy?02br
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00Thank you very much,02br
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00Spoonfedbaby.02br
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0 01i 00Reason why 02i 00is denounced by some grammarians as being redundant, but defended by others. 01i 00Webster's Dictionary of English Usage 02i 00says: 01font 00 So if you are taking freshman English, you had perhaps best avoid offending with this usage. 02br 02br 00 So all of your sentences are acceptable except to a few grammarians and university teaching assistants.

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  • 0 01i 00Reason why 02i 00is denounced by some grammarians as being redundant, but defended by others.
  • 01i 00Webster's Dictionary of English Usage 02i 00says: 01font 00 So if you are taking freshman English, you had perhaps best avoid offending with this usage.
  • 02br 02br 00 So all of your sentences are acceptable except to a few grammarians and university teaching assistants.
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0 01i00Reason why 02i00is denounced by some grammarians as being redundant, but defended by others. 01i00Webster's Dictionary of English Usage 02i00says: 01font00 So if you are taking freshman English, you had perhaps best avoid offending with this usage. Anyone else can use 01i00reason why 02i00
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0Hi all:02br
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00I usual use "that" replace with "why".02br
00Maybe you can use “that”02br
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00Can I say "the REASON grass is green was a mystery to the little boy?"02br
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00The reason “that” grass is green was(is) a mystery to the little boy?02br
00But sometime “that” always omit like
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0Hi, rvw02br
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00Remember we have a post in which we've talked about the structure "The reason is that/because..."02br
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00I think you must have confused the structure in this post with that of the post I mentioned.02br
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01b00The REASON WHY grass is green was a mystery to the little boy02b00.02br
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0 I'm a native English speaker and my natural instinct (which isn't necessarily correct) is to say:02br
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00"The reason that.." and02br
00"The question why...". 0-
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0Hi,02br
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00Rather than 'the question why..', I'd prefer to say something like 'the question about why ...' or '.....of why...' or '....as to why...'02br
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00Perhaps it's a case of "Ours not to reason why!"02br
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00Clive0-
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0Many thanks to Rvw, Philip, jeter, apet, 00Eimai_Anglos00 and 00 00Clive to have answered my question.02br
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