摘自国外论坛Generally two indepedent clauses are joined together by using a conjunction. Here "that" is the conjunction that should be joining these two ICs. However, many a times "that" is dropped between two ICs when the meaning is absolutely clearly. For example: She told me she would call at 5 pm. Joe mentioned the party was at his place. Even if both these sentences lack "that", they are not ambiguous in their meaning. Use of "that" is imperative when it is used as relative pronoun. For example: Joe gave me a book that was lying in his room for six months now.
Ok the D Clears the parallelism issue but isn't the construction "households were confident they could safely" is a bit awkward without a "that " between confident and they??? ( "households were confident that they could safely....")
Hi there,
Your doubt is pretty valid. Generally two indepedent clauses are joined together by using a conjunction. Here "that" is the conjunction that should be joining these two ICs. However, many a times "that" is dropped between two ICs when the meaning is absolutely clearly.
For example:
She told me she would call at 5 pm.
Joe mentioned the party was at his place.
Even if both these sentences lack "that", they are not ambiguous in their meaning.
Use of "that" is imperative when it is used as relative pronoun.
For example:
Joe gave me a book that was lying in his room for six months now.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
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