A word puzzle, from David Foster Wallace:
Can you construct a grammatical English sentence that uses the word “that” five times in a row?
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serratedserenades answered:
“And then ‘that’ happened,” the detective continued. She knew about that - that that “that” that he emphasized was a reference to murder.
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thisisthebookthatiwrite answered:
He realized that, that that “that” that he’d written was incorrect.
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ryan2600 answered:
That “that that” that that man wrote in his thesis was improperly placed.
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shouting-love answered:
Did you know that that that that that sentence used was grammatically correct?
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halcy answered:
Should mention “without cheating” (‘Can you construct a grammatical English sentence that uses “that that that that that”’))
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harperbooks answered:
I remember my latin teacher teasing us with the “had” version.
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