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Vocabulary
Brexit is the story that...
Brexit is the story that rolling news was invented for. (The Guardian.)
Is "that" a relative pronoun in the sentence above?
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anonymous Brexit is the story that rolling news was invented for. ) Is "that" a relative pronoun in the sentence above? In traditional grammar it is.
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anonymousBrexit is the story that rolling news was invented for. (The Guardian.)
Is "that" a relative pronoun in the sentence above?
In traditional grammar it is.
In Cambridge grammar (or "modern grammar") it is not. It is a subordinator.
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