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"I admit I don't know", "I have the impression it's going to be hot"... but where has the "that" gone in spoken language?

2022-09-04T06:17:20.573Z


More and more often, the subordinating conjunction "that" disappears in speech. Young people are fond of these shortened expressions, m


"I don't think I'm going to go there", "It looks like he did it on purpose", "I have the impression it's going to be hot".

But what have they done with their "that"?

These expressions, and many others where the subordinating conjunction "that" disappears, you have certainly heard them many times.

Lina, mother of two teenage girls in Paris, has been fighting hard for months to restore the proper use of grammar in her home.

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Source: leparis

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