A word puzzle, from David Foster Wallace:

deltamualpha:

Can you construct a grammatical English sentence that uses the word “that” five times in a row?

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  1. serratedserenades answered: “And then ‘that’ happened,” the detective continued. She knew about that - that that “that” that he emphasized was a reference to murder.
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  3. thisisthebookthatiwrite answered: He realized that, that that “that” that he’d written was incorrect.
  4. ryan2600 answered: That “that that” that that man wrote in his thesis was improperly placed.
  5. shouting-love answered: Did you know that that that that that sentence used was grammatically correct?
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  9. halcy answered: Should mention “without cheating” (‘Can you construct a grammatical English sentence that uses “that that that that that”’))
  10. harperbooks answered: I remember my latin teacher teasing us with the “had” version.
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