Re: "Difficult" clauses

MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 5/14/2007 6:45:34 PM Central Daylight Time,
> MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com writes:
>
>
>> Whether the "that" is explicit or implicit is not really the issue.  For
>> one
>> thing, you can't arbitrarily insert "that" wherever you want.  As you say,
>> it's part of the deep structure.
>>
>
> It occurred to me that perhaps what was meant by "adding an implicit 'that'"
> was essentially "making an implicit 'that' explicit".  Is this the case?
Yes, that's pretty much what I was trying to get at: adding a word to
clarify the structure of the sentence.