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"show that them"
"People think that blind people cannot take pictures," she says. "I want to show that them that blind people can."
More: Eye-opening: Photography brings life to blind students - CNN.com
Why has the determiner that been inserted between the verb show and the object pronoun plural them while Cambridge Dictionary Online says that the object form of they used after a verb or preposition? Do we have a fixed position for them? I think that this is a trick because them can also function as determiner? In a nutshell, native English speakers are the decision makers. In other words, they can decide between us.
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Re: "show that them"
It's simply a mistake. The underlined 'that' should not be there.
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Re: "show that them"
...or 'that them' can be reversed.
Rover
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Re: "show that them"

Originally Posted by
Rover_KE
...or 'that them' can be reversed.
No. That would give us one too many thats
Last edited by 5jj; 21-Nov-2012 at 12:37.
Reason: typo
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Re: "show that them"

Originally Posted by
5jj
No. That would give us one too many thats.
Oops! You're right.
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