Re: "Difficult" clauses

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?

stevo

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