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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

What structure is this?

I would ask you, Donald, what are some things you say have made you the negotiator that you are today?

Q) Considering the underlined part, I don't understand it. Is it grammatically correct?
  

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I'm going to separate the sentence and see if you still understand it or not. What are some things / you say / have made you the negotiator that you are today

  • I'm going to separate the sentence and see if you still understand it or not.
  • What are some things / you say / have made you the negotiator that you are today
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I'm going to separate the sentence and see if you still understand it or not.

What are some things / you say / have made you the negotiator that you are today
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There are two verbs... in the sentence without a relative clause. That's why I'm confused..

Shouldn't the sentence something like this?: What are some things that you say that have made... ?
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I'm not sure about the grammar aspect of it, but the sentence sounds fine in a conversational perspective. May need advice from the grammar experts in this forum.

One of the verbs could be an infinitive I think. And your last sentence 'What are some things that you say that have made...' sounds perfectly fine as well.
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The example where you have inserted "that" and "that" make the sentence clearer, but it is my understanding this would be a case of a "superflous that", meaning you do not need to add them to the sentence for it to make sense. I took this from another site:That can almost always be dropped. In your example, that is being used as a conjunction, i.e. it is introducing a subordinate clause as the o
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Hi, I appreciate the answers.

I was still wondering something about this thread.

1. I would ask you, Donald, what are some things(that) you say (that) have made you the negotiator that you are today?

I understand that the first that between "some things" and "you say..." because you say is the subject and the verb for the noun "some things"; but I don't understand

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