The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes:

• to introduce a restrictive clause
• as a demonstrative pronoun
• as a complementizer. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Grammar is the field of Linguistics that covers the Rules governing the use of any given natural language. Demonstratives are deictic words (they depend on an external frame of reference that indicate which entities a speaker refers to and distinguishes those entities from others A complementizer, as used in Linguistics (especially Generative grammar) is a syntactic category ( part of speech) roughly equivalent to the term

In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed ( ). Î, î ( I - Circumflex) is a letter of Kurdish and Romanian language. In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that that was spelled þat, or sometimes þet. Middle English is the name given by Historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of Æ ( minuscule: æ) is a Grapheme formed from the letters A and E. The ascender of the þ was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which necessitated writing a small t above the letter to abbreviate the word that ( ). Wynn ( (also spelled wen, ƿynn, or ƿen) was a letter of the Old English alphabet. In latter Middle English and Early Modern English the þ evolved into a y shape, so that the word was spelled yat (although the spelling with a th replacing the þ was starting to become more popular) and the abbreviation for that was a y with a small t above it ( ). Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period (the latter half of the 15th century to 1650 This abbreviation can still be seen in reprints of the 1611 edition of the King James Version of the Bible in places such as 2 Corinthians 13:7.

Phrases

"That" can be used five times in a row, in a grammatically correct sentence:

He said that that 'that' that that man used was wrong. ^[1]

Or six times:

He said that that 'that' that that 'that' modified was wrong.

Or seven times:^[2]

Did the editor know that, that that 'that' that that 'that' followed was redundant?^[3]

The same thing is possible with the German equivalent of that 'das', with the exception that 'das' is sometimes written 'dass' (or older 'daß') to make it easier to read, though it is pronounced the same way.

The pattern can be repeated indefinitely and retain its grammatical correctness:

Did you know that that 'that' that that 'that' that that 'that' that that 'that'. . .

Other patterns of grammatically correct multiple consecutive occurrences are also possible. For example:

That that is is that that that that is not is not.

References

1. ^ http://www.rightwords.co.nz/that.html
2. ^ Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. That
3. ^ opundo-repetition

See also

• This
• English relative clauses
• That is also the Lao word for stupa. This article is focused mainly on usage of English relative clauses Lao or Laotian (BGN/PCGN phasa lao IPA: pʰaːsaː laːw is a Tonal Language of the Tai-Kadai language family A stupa (from Sanskrit and Pāli: m स्तूप stūpa, literally meaning "heap" is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist