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[edit] punctuation

could someone add a section on the use of comas ',' before and/after 'that'? i would, but i have problems with it myself sometimes :) Linden16 (talk) 14:20, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] out of curiousity

is it grammatically allowed to have two that's?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bud0011 (talk • contribs) .

That makes "those". -Goldom (t) (Review) 05:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
sorry, i don't follow Bud0011 05:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

if you are talking about the word 'that', then cant you say 'That that'

If you are talking about a thing called 'That' that said the word 'that' then cant you say: That 'that', that that That said was 'that'.

There is more than one meaning of "that" - as a pronoun or to join two clauses together (eg. "I see that it's raining"). You don't need to quote "that" in order to have a grammatically correct sentence with two "thats" next to each other. Eg. I hope that that chicken is edible. If you think about the two "thats" in that sentence, you'll see they don't have exactly the same meaning as each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.27.34 (talk) 00:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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He said that that can be used as a pronoun.

[edit] Starting a sentence with 'that'

A friend told me that it's grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with the word 'that'. Is this true? PolarisSLBM 16:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

That such sentences are acceptable is beyond question. Is this ok? 67.130.129.135 17:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

That looks good to me, as long as the pronoun has a clear reference in context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.113.172 (talk) 22:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok. That that 'that' is accetable appears to be the consensus.67.130.129.135 (talk) 22:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unrelated reference

moved comment to bottom of page and added heading Phaunt (talk) 15:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

The fourth reference link, about the pattern being infinitely repeatable, goes to a page of links rather than an article. -71.28.192.37 (talk) 05:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed the reference and added a {{fact}} tag. Phaunt (talk) 15:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

'Indefinitely' is probably a better word than 'infinitely'. Formal grammars generally stipulate that a well formed sentence must be finite. 67.130.129.135 (talk) 20:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)