I ordered the same dish that I ordered yesterday.

[optimistic pessimist]

Dear all,

I'd like to ask a question about the sentences below.

1. I'm going to order the same dish that I ordered yesterday.
2. I'm going to order the same dish as I ordered yesterday.

Between the choices of that and as, which do you think is better?

Thank you!

OP

 

[Rover_KE]

I prefer 1, though I would actually say

3. I'm going to order the same dish I ordered yesterday.

 

[TheParser]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****

Hello,

I found one scholar's opinion that interested me. May I share it with you?

"The fact is that both as and that are acceptable. I want the same brand that I bought last time / After that experience he was never the same as he was before."

Then the scholar makes this observation: "[T]he choice is made by deciding whether the idea of comparison (as) predominates over the mere wish to define (that)."

Regarding your sentence, which idea do you feel predominates: comparison or a mere wish to define? (I shall keep my opinion to myself.)


Credit for this information goes to Wilson Follett in his Modern American Usage (1980).

 

[Eckaslike]

Personally, I would probably use version 1, but don't have any problem at all with 2 or Rover_KE's suggestion no.3.

To me, they all work.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I prefer Rover's version. The other words are not needed.