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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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The woman tells anyone who cares to listen [that] she's going through hell.
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6. verb [no cont]
If you say that someone does something when they care to do it, you mean that they do it, although they should do it more willingly or more often.
The woman tells anyone who cares to listen that she's going through hell.
<Collins Dictionary http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-cobuild-learners/caring>
I'd like to know here what role "that" plays.
Thank you in advance for your help.
6. verb [no cont]
If you say that someone does something when they care to do it, you mean that they do it, although they should do it more willingly or more often.
The woman tells anyone who cares to listen that she's going through hell.
<Collins Dictionary http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-cobuild-learners/caring>
I'd like to know here what role "that" plays.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon I'd like to know here what role "that" plays. It's an ordinary complementizer that goes with "tells" to specify the content of the message which the woman conveys. The that -clause is called a content clause.
- park sang joon I'd like to know here what role "that" plays.
- It's an ordinary complementizer that goes with "tells" to specify the content of the message which the woman conveys.
- The that -clause is called a content clause.
- She tells them that she's going through ****.
- She says, "I'm going through ****".
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park sang joonI'd like to know here what role "that" plays.It's an ordinary complementizer that goes with "tells" to specify the content of the message which the woman conveys. The that-clause is called a content clause.
She tells them that she's going through ****. She says, "I'm going through ****".
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