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Usage of "That" in the beginning of a sentence

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Usage of "That" in the beginning of a sentence

by shyamprasadrao » Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:13 pm
Can someone explain when it is ok to use a sentence that begins with "that" and when it is wrong?
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by vikram4689 » Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:16 pm
There are number of uses of this word 'that'. It acts as a relative pronoun (to introduce modifier), subordination conjunction (to join dependent clause to an independent clause) Please post the questions and then you will be understand better.
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by priya2gupta5 » Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:15 pm
I only knew of the usage of "that" as relative pronoun. Can you elaborate more on the usage to join dependent clause and independent clause. That is the first I am hearing...:)

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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:14 pm
There is also the "that" introducing noun clauses ("That the GMAT is hard cannot be denied.")
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by vikram4689 » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:28 pm
priya2gupta5 wrote:I only knew of the usage of "that" as relative pronoun. Can you elaborate more on the usage to join dependent clause and independent clause. That is the first I am hearing...:)

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Dependent Clause :Priya said
Independent Clause:she will get 800 in GMAT
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