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denna1001I'm telling mom that you stole her keys.It's correct and called Defining Relative Clause. That cannot be ommited there. In the Defining Relative Clause, Subordinate Sentence cannot be put out because the meaning of the whole sentence will be unclear or distorted.
FandorinYour examples are the pattern of so called Relative Clause.Sorry. No. Verbs of telling take noun clauses as objects. that is a complementizer, not a relative pronoun, and the that-clause is a complement of the verb, not an adjectival construction (which is what relative clauses are).
denna1001I'm telling mom, you stole her keys.
I'm telling mom that you stole her keys.
you would choose this one because you wouldent just say i,m telling mum that you stole her keys.
FandorinAdjective Clause and Noun Clauses are Subordinate Clauses, aren't they?Yes!