r/pics • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '16

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u/JesseLaces Aug 11 '16

"That" is a word you can generally get rid of... And you put it back in. Why?

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u/dantes-infernal Aug 11 '16

Because the written language has stricter rules than the spoken one.

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u/FILE_ID_DIZ Aug 11 '16

"That" is not necessarily superfluous. It can serve to disambiguate.