Using x omitting "that"
Hi, there
Which of THESE sentences is right?
"At the airport, there are many lines. There's the line for your flight, the line to get a coffee, and the line to get the headphones you forgot at home but are essential to your flight" or "At the airport, there are many lines. There's the line for your flight, the line to get a coffee, and the line to get the headphones you forgot at home but THAT are essential to your flight"
"A sentence then must express some kind of meaning that does not clearly reside in its nouns and verbs but embraces the entire combination" or "A sentence then must express some kind of meaning that does not clearly reside in its nouns and verbs but THATembraces the entire combination"
With or without "that"?
Thank you!
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In the first example, you need “that” but it could go in two locations. 1. ...the headphones you forgot at home but that are... or 2. ... the headphones that you forgot at home but are... You can tell “that” is required here because if you take out “you forgot at home but” you can’t say “the headphones are” without changing other parts of the sentence. So you need “that” in one of those locations.
The second “that” is optional and correct with or without in your second example. (The first “that” in the second example is required, which you seem to know since you didn’t ask about that one.)
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All of them are right. "The person I saw yesterday called me today" and "The person that I saw yesterday called me today" are both correct, and they have the same meaning.
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