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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
When to use "that" in a sentence?
1. "I read that people read too much"
2. "I read people read too much"
The first sentence sounds more reasonable to but i believe the second one is the correct one.
2. "I read people read too much"
The first sentence sounds more reasonable to but i believe the second one is the correct one.
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They're both OK, Guest, but I prefer the first one because I can understand its meaning more clearly. t/), but only if the meaning is clear without it. In your (2), 'read people' often means 'understand people from their actions and words'-- which is the wrong interpretation for this sentence.
- They're both OK, Guest, but I prefer the first one because I can understand its meaning more clearly.
- t/), but only if the meaning is clear without it.
- In your (2), 'read people' often means 'understand people from their actions and words'-- which is the wrong interpretation for this sentence.
- Therefore, I think the 'that' is desirable to make the structure clear.
- For me, the two 'read's in each sentence are not as confusing as the lack of 'that'.
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They're both OK, Guest, but I prefer the first one because I can understand its meaning more clearly. 'That' can often be omitted from such a structure (in the spoken language it is usually very severely reduced to /th?t/ or even /d?t/), but only if the meaning is clear without it.
In your (2), 'read people' often means 'understand people from their actions and words'-- which is the wro
In your (2), 'read people' often means 'understand people from their actions and words'-- which is the wro
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