I'm happy with everything what you can provide.

[Adria81]

Good Afternoon,

Could you please let me know, If the below text is correct?


I'm happy with everything what you can provide.
The only thing I will kindly ask you to get for me is a large calculator instead of small one.
Make doesn't matter.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Good afternoon.

Could you please let me know if the below text is correct?

I'm happy with everything that you [STRIKE]can[/STRIKE] provide.
The only thing I [STRIKE]will kindly[/STRIKE] want you to get for me is a large calculator instead of small one. Make doesn't matter.

You might look up the differences between what and that — two very useful words!

The moderators will want you to change the title of your post to include some of the words you're asking about.

 

[emsr2d2]

The moderators will want you to change the title of your post to include some of the words you're asking about.

Adria81, this time I've changed it for you. Titles should be unique and relevant to the thread. Generic titles such as "text" are no use to anyone. Also, note that I have deleted your "Thank you" post. There is no need to write a post to say "Thank you" to anyone - simply click on the "Thank" button. It saves time for everyone.

 

[GoesStation]

"I'm happy with everything that you can provide" works fine for me.

 

[emsr2d2]

It would have worked fine for all of if that was what post #1 had said. ;-)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

"I'm happy with everything that you can provide" works fine for me.

Me, too! (That's why I changed it.)

 

[PeterCW]

The use of "what" instead of "that" is sometimes heard among poorly educated native speakers. You are, however, more likely to come across it in writing, drama or comedy as an indicator that the speaker is poorly educated.

 

[tzfujimino]

The use of "what" instead of "that" is sometimes heard [...]

Could you give us an example?

 

[jutfrank]

Could you give us an example?

PeterCW is talking about the use of what in place of that in defining relative clauses.

This use is certainly nonstandard and although it may be correlative to a speaker's level of education, there's no real relationship there, in my opinion. The factors that control the speech patterns that a speaker uses are partly sociolectic (you tend to speak in the same way as those people in the socioeconomic group you grew up in) and partly dialectic (you tend to speak in the same way as those people in the area you grew up in).