Timeline for "that" usage, subject-verb distance
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| Dec 24, 2013 at 7:11 | history | edited | Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 564 characters in body
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| Dec 24, 2013 at 0:11 | history | edited | Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 186 characters in body
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| Dec 23, 2013 at 23:45 | history | edited | Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 126 characters in body
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| Dec 23, 2013 at 23:18 | comment | added | John Lawler | Basically, that means that that (or any Wh-relative pronoun like which) can be deleted from a restrictive relative clause, provided it's not the subject of the clause. If it is the subject (as it is here) then it is required; otherwise it's optional. | |
| Dec 23, 2013 at 7:29 | comment | added | Kris | that cannot be elided in all sentences. The sentence structure, syntax and semantics need to be considered and only if the use of that happens to be redundant can it be safely omitted. Not in this case, where either that or which needs to be used appropriately. | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 23:13 | answer | added | user60254 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 22:58 | history | asked | Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |