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pdh0224 · Post by **pdh0224** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:01 am

Dear teacher,

"It started as just one HTML basic page, started with a laptop my father lent me and a freezer that my parents said, 'Yeah, you can borrow this because we don't need it right now,' " Mr. Mandell said. "And it's grown far beyond that."

Q : What is the function of "that" in the sentence?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:34 am

It is a common solecism: informally, 'that' often substitutes for 'of which', which is the meaning here.