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- How do you handle that that? The double that problem
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- Given versus Given that - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Are there rules about using that to join two clauses?
> This is the farmer that grew the corn that fed the cock that crowed the morn that woke the priest all shaven and shorn that married the beggar all tattered and torn that kissed the maiden all forlorn that milked the cow with a broken horn that tossed the dog that chased the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built
- grammaticality - that + would = thatd? - English Language . . .
I've seen that sometimes, and it have always confused me I'd think that it (ignoring how contractions are normally written in English) really should be spelled "that'ould" or "that'ud" (or more phonetically "that'ed" "that'wd") because I cannot understand how you'd pronounce that without at least a schwa sound between the t and the d (it's the same consonant unvoiced and voiced)
- pronouns - When to use “that” and when to use “which”, especially in . . .
Well, the difference is slight but real According to the New Oxford American Dictionary: In U S English, it is usually recommended that which be employed only for nonrestrictive (or nonessential) clauses: the horse, which is in the paddock, is six years old (the which clause contains a nonessential fact, noted in passing; the horse would be six years old wherever it was)
- grammar - When to use this or that? - English Language Usage . . .
Hello, Drflash55, and welcome to English Language Usage Your answer seems to be heavily weighted toward personal opinion as opposed to objective analysis—but this site especially prizes answers that have an identifiable basis in verifiable fact rather than just opinion
- meaning - Agree on vs. agree with vs. agree to - English Language . . .
A quote from "A valency dictionary of English" (Herbst et al 2004: 25), with some modifications: A Agree can mean 'be of the same opinion'
- Simple Past vs. Present Perfect: was vs. has been
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