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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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what is that in this sentence
he was so green that his name was greeny
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He was so green that his name was Greeny. that' is a correlative subordinating conjunction. Informally, 'that' is often omitted.
- He was so green that his name was Greeny.
- that' is a correlative subordinating conjunction.
- Informally, 'that' is often omitted.
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He was so green that his name was Greeny.
'So...that' is a correlative subordinating conjunction. Informally, 'that' is often omitted.
'So...that' is a correlative subordinating conjunction. Informally, 'that' is often omitted.
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I posted a similar question recently and received some good replies which led me to the answer - the word 'that' is a Syntactic Pleonasm. Here is the link to the thread -
Also, wikipedia has an article about this, just search for 'pleonasm' (notice the word 'just' I used is pleonastic in this context).
Also, wikipedia has an article about this, just search for 'pleonasm' (notice the word 'just' I used is pleonastic in this context).
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