So that you can understand in a meaningful way about the subject of our meeting, it is necessary to return to some concepts, expressed through the text "Subordinate Substantive Sentences”.
As you can see, substantive subordinate clauses are those introduced by the integral conjunctions “what” and “if”, right?
Well, what interests us now is to find out when the little word “that” represents this conjunction and when it acts as a relative pronoun. Now, do you think it's a little difficult, because it's the same term?
Know that no, because through the first example, we will already learn. Let's go to it:
Desire that you get a good result in the evaluations.
You noticed that there it is: the word “that”. But you still don't know how she ranks, do you agree?
Try asking a question to the verb to desire, that is: What do I want? May you get a good result in the evaluations. Therefore, it is an integral conjunction, as it introduces a direct objective substantive subordinate clause.
Let's look at another example:
The boys who obtained a good result in the competition were awarded.
We ask you: Do you agree that the term that is part of our study now replaces the noun “boys”? Of course yes. In this way, he ranks as relative pronoun, OK?
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
