He said that that 'that' that that man used is wrong.
Grammatically Correct: Your brain asplode.
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Grammatically Correct: Your brain asplode.
Believe it or not, this is a gramatically correct sentence. (So I am told anyway.)
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." - John F Kennedy
Took me a few reads through it to understand what it was saying, but yeah, its gramatically correct
Another way of saying that would be something like this:
"He said that the word which that man used is wrong"
I think..lol.. "word" can be replaced with anything, and in this case (just to confuse the reader), they used 'that' as the word
Another way of saying that would be something like this:
"He said that the word which that man used is wrong"
I think..lol.. "word" can be replaced with anything, and in this case (just to confuse the reader), they used 'that' as the word
Actually, your use of the word 'which' in this case is incorrect. The word 'that' would be proper, as the sentence assumes by its structure that you know which word that that man used is being referenced. The word 'which' should be used when more than one object is being referenced in the sentence.Durew wrote:Another way of saying that would be something like this:
"He said that the word which that man used is wrong"
Examples:
The door that that man used was the incorrect door.
The man did not know which door to use.
I do not know which door that that man used because I became disoriented, and I do not know which door is which.
Regardless, while the sentence is gramatically correct it does not flow well and could be rewritten to be less confusing to read.
"He said that that man used the word 'that' incorrectly in that instance."
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