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Date: | Fri, 2 Jun 1995 09:35:58 -0700 |
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"It was that that caused his resignation."
How do members describe the that-clause? I want to call it a noun clause
functioning as the delayed subject, but you can't turn the sentence
around as you can other sentences with noun clause delayed subjects ("It
is a pity that we missed each other" can become "That we missed each
other is a pity").
There's also a definite sense in which "that" is functioning as a
relative pronoun introducing a relative clause modifying the first
"that."
Is there some in-between status for "that"? Is there a name for it?
Michael Kischner
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