{"id":73448,"date":"2020-03-26T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73448"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:04:08","slug":"that-clauses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/that-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"That-Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>That\u00a0<\/b>is simply a connector. It shows that a declarative clause forms part of a larger sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I understand. You are right. (two separate sentences)<\/li>\n<li>I understand\u00a0<b>that you are right.<\/b>\u00a0(The clause\u00a0<i>you are right\u00a0<\/i>has become the object of the verb in the larger sentence.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>That-clauses: functions<\/h3>\n<p><b>That-clauses<\/b>\u00a0can have various functions in sentences. A\u00a0<b>that-clause<\/b>\u00a0can be the subject.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>That she should forget me so quickly\u00a0<\/b>was rather a shock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It can be the complement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main thing is\u00a0<b>that she is happy.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many verbs can have\u00a0<b>that-clauses<\/b>\u00a0as objects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will see\u00a0<b>that a meal is ready for you\u00a0<\/b>when you get home tonight.<\/li>\n<li>We knew\u00a0<b>that she would be happy.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many nouns and adjectives can be followed by\u00a0<b>that-clauses\u00a0<\/b>as complements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His manners are so bad\u00a0<b>that nobody invites him to a party.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>You may go on condition\u00a0<b>that you will not come home alone.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that not all verbs, nouns or adjectives can be followed by\u00a0<b>that-clauses<\/b>. For the structures that are possible after particular verbs, nouns and adjectives, see a good dictionary.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparatory it<\/h3>\n<p>In many cases,\u00a0<b>it<\/b>\u00a0is used as a preparatory subject or object for a<b>\u00a0that-clause.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She made\u00a0<b>it\u00a0<\/b>clear\u00a0<i>that she wanted to leave.<\/i>\u00a0(NOT She made that she wanted to leave.)<\/li>\n<li><b>It\u00a0<\/b>surprised me\u00a0<i>that she was still in bed.<\/i>\u00a0(More natural than That she was still in bed surprised me.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The fact that<\/h3>\n<p><b>That-clauses<\/b>\u00a0cannot follow prepositions directly. We use the expression<b>\u00a0the fact that.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The judge paid no attention\u00a0<b>to the fact that\u00a0<\/b>she had just lost her husband. (NOT The judge paid no attention to that she \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>He held her responsible\u00a0<b>for the fact that\u00a0<\/b>she took food without paying for it. (NOT He held her responsible for that she took \u2026)<\/li>\n<li><b>In spite of the fact that\u00a0<\/b>she had three small children he sent her to prison. (NOT In spite of that she had \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u00a0is simply a connector. It shows that a declarative clause forms part of a larger sentence. Compare: I understand. You are right. (two separate sentences) I understand\u00a0that you are right.\u00a0(The clause\u00a0you are right\u00a0has become&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[782,1176,2265,2264],"class_list":["post-73448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-clauses","tag-that","tag-that-clause","tag-that-clauses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73449,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73448\/revisions\/73449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}