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- How do you handle that that? The double that problem
Have you ever had a case where you felt compelled to include strange things like a double that in a sentence? If so, then what did you do to resolve this? For me, I never knew whether it was accep
- How to avoid that that that that is so very awkward
In all seriousness, are there any common patterns or strategies people use to avoid having to write a sentence in which "that that" appears? For example: Evidential decision theory recommends ta
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is usually said that who is used for people (and sometimes animals) while that is used to refer to objects In actual usage, though, both who and that can be used to refer to persons, sometimes to animals, and sometimes to entities that consist of people The dog who that chewed the bone chased the cat The person who that stole my purse used all my credit cards The group who that went
- Im well vs. Im good vs. Im doing well, etc
The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well [Misunderstood the question ] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially a
- Is it grammatically acceptable to start a sentence with That that. . . ?
@Catija The two are inextricably connected—you can't separate them like that Ungrammaticality is nothing but clumsiness or awkwardness to a not-precisely-definable-but-more-than-just-clumsy degree To me, ‘that that’ in the sense ‘that which’ is on the ungrammatical side of the line, but it's not far from the merely clumsy side To others (like you, it would seem) it is sure to fall
- Use of what vs that - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The following sentence was on one of the tests: What would you like to do that others have told you is impossible Students have asked why that could not be replaced with what I e , What woul
- comma or semicolon before that is and repeating that
Your new example now contains a main verb (=, that is, equals), so what you have is correct But you can use either a semicolon or commas To use a "simpler" sentence: 1 We need to show that 2 plus 2 equals 4; that is, that 4 is the sum of 2 and 2 or 2 We need to show that 2 plus 2, that is, the sum of 2 and 2, is [equals] 4 Note the placement of the punctuation and of "that is" In 1, we
- That was me vs. That was I - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
When telling a story about myself from the past, I have found myself in an internal debate over whether the correct way to segue into the present is: That was me twelve years ago Or: That was I
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