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There is an antonym of that.


As adverbs the difference between there and that

is that there is (location) in a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ) while that is (degree) to a given extent or degree; particularly.

As nouns the difference between there and that

is that there is that place while that is (philosophy) something being indicated that is there; one of those.

As pronouns the difference between there and that

is that there is while that is (demonstrative) that thing or person.

As a interjection there

is .

As a conjunction that is

.

As a determiner that is

the (thing) being indicated (at a distance from the speaker, or previously mentioned, or at another time).

there

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here ).
  • * 1623 , , The Comedy of Errors , Act 5, Scene 1,
  • And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;
  • * 1769 , , 2, viii,
  • The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
  • * 1667 , '', 1773, James Buchanan (editor), ''The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered into Grammatical Construction , page 381,
  • To veil the heav'n, tho' darkne?s there' might well / Seem twilight ' here .
  • (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
  • He did not stop there , but continued his speech.
    They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there .
  • * 1597 '', Act 3, Scene 3, 1836, ''The Works of Shakespeare , Isaac, Tuckey, and Co., page 825,
  • The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
  • (location) To or into that place; thither.
  • * , prologue:
  • A knight there was, and that a worthy man /
  • * 1623 , , Act 2, Scene 1,
  • And the rarest that e’er came there .
  • * 1690 , , paragraph 4:
  • So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.
  • * 1769 , , 28, vii,
  • There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
  • (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
  • * , The Summoners's Prologue and Tale]'', in ''[[w:The Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales] ,
  • And spende hir good ther it is resonable;
  • *:: Note : Modern editions commonly render this instance of ther'' as ''where .
  • In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below .
  • * 1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, "Why Don't We Fly?", in Popular Science , page 144:
  • These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.

    Usage notes

    * The use of there'' instead of they're (meaning ''they are ) is a common error in English writing. * (to or into that place) ** There'' is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling attention to something, especially to something distant; as, There, there'''! See '''there'''! Look ' there ! ** There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. ** There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (to or into that place) thither (archaic)

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * *

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
  • There! That knot should hold.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That place.
  • *
  • *
  • That status; that position.
  • You get it ready; I'll take it from there .

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]
    There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
    Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]
    No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]
  • * 1908', C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), '''', song from the musical ''Fluffy Ruffles ,
  • It's very sad but all the same, / There ’s something rather odd about Augustus.
  • * 1909', ,
  • There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; .
  • * 1918 , , Part 1, II,
  • There are intentional and unintentional towns.
  • If x is a positive number, then there''' exists ''[='''there is]'' a positive number y less than x.
    There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
    Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there''' lived a woodsman with his wife.'' [=' There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]
    There''' arose a great wind out of the east.'' [=' There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]
  • * 1895 , Sabine Baring-Gould, : Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood,
  • All in a wood there grew a fine tree,
  • * 1897 , '': The Kentucky Home, in ''Four Great Americans ,
  • Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.
  • * 1904 , Uriel Waldo Cutler, , Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail,
  • On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."
  • There''' seems to be some difficulty with the papers.'' [=It seems that ' there is some difficulty with the papers.]
    I expected there''' to be a simpler solution.'' [=I expected that ' there would be a simpler solution.]
    There''' are beginning to be complications.'' [=It's beginning to be the case that ' there are complications.]
  • (in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.
  • there'''for, '''there'''at, ' there under
  • (colloquial)
  • Hi there , young fellow.

    Usage notes

    * In formal English, the verb agrees with the semantic subject: “there is a tree”, “there are some trees”, “there seems to be a mistake”, “there seem to be some mistakes”, and so on. This is because the "there [form of be]" construction originally used, and could still be said to use, "there" as simply an adverb modifying "to be". However, the syntax is archaic enough that "there" is rarely recognized as an adverb. In colloquial usage, therefore, the verb is often found in the third-person singular form, even when the semantic subject is plural — “there’s some trees”, “there seems to be some mistakes” — but this is often considered incorrect.

    See also

    *

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    that

    English

    (wikipedia that)

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • He told me that the book is a good read.
    I believe that''' it is true.'' — ''She is convinced '''that he is British.
  • because, in that.
  • Be glad that you have enough to eat.
  • so, so that.
  • * 1714 , (Alexander Pope), The Rape of the Lock , III.1:
  • The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
  • * 1833 , Parley's Magazine , volume 1, page 23:
  • Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.
  • * 2009 , Dallas R. Burdette, Biblical Preaching and Teaching (ISBN 1615790853), page 340:
  • Jesus died that we might live "through" Him.
  • The noise was so loud that she woke up.
    The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
  • * 2008 , Zoe Williams, The Guardian , 23 May 2008:
  • My dad apparently always said that no child of his would ever be harassed for its poor eating habits, and then I arrived, and I was so disgusting that he revised his opinion.
  • (archaic, or, poetic) seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
  • * 1623 , (William Shakespeare), The Comedy of Errors :
  • What, are you mad, that you do reason so?
  • * 1859 , (Charles Dickens), (A Tale of Two Cities):
  • In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
  • * , third draft of what became (Sons and Lovers)'', in Helen Baron (editor), ''Paul Morel , Cambridge University Press (2003), ISBN 978-0-521-56009-2, page 234:
  • “She must be wonderfully fascinating,” said Mrs Morel, with scathing satire. “She must be very wonderful, that you should trail eight miles, backward and forward, after eight o’clock at night.”
  • Was John there? — Not that''' I saw.'' — — — ''How often did she visit him? — Twice '''that I saw.
  • * 1866 October 6, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings'', part 8, in ''Littell's Living Age , number 1166 (series 4, number 27), page 27:
  • " I will go anywhere that she may wish if she will go with me,"
  • * 1864 , T. S. Norgate's translation of the Iliad , book 10, page 613:
  • "Would that my rage and wrath would somehow stir me, / Here as I am, to cut off thy raw flesh / And eat it."
  • * 1892 , Paolo Segneri, The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year :
  • "Oh, that they would be wise, and would understand, "
  • * 1610 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , act 1, scene 2, page 4:
  • I pray thee, mark me — that a brother should / Be so perfidious! —

    Usage notes

    * That'' can be used to introduce subordinate clauses, but can just as easily be omitted: one can say either "he told me that it's a good read" (in which case the second clause is a "''that clause") or "he told me it's a good read" (in which case the second clause is a "bare clause"). * Historically, "that" was usually preceded by a comma ("he told me, that it is a good read") — such usage was, for example, recommended by the grammarian Joseph Robertson in his 1785 essay On Punctuation — but this is now generally considered nonstandard. * Historically, that'' was sometimes used after a preposition to introduce a clause which was the object of the preposition, as in "after that things are set in order here, we'll follow them" (Shakespeare, ''1 Henry VI''), which simply means "after things are set in order..." and would be worded thus in modern English.''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1903)

    Determiner

  • The (thing, person, idea, etc) indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote physically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "(l)", or if expressing distinction.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title= A Cuckoo in the Nest, chapter=1
  • , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title= The China Governess, chapter=20
  • , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

    Derived terms

    * thatness *

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (lb) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action
  • * , , Scene 1:
  • To be, or not to be: that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them?
  • * 1888 July, The Original Secession Magazine , page 766:
  • [He] was qualified and fitted, both intellectually and morally, — and that to an exceptional extent — to be the Head
  • *
  • "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that . I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game (Folio Society 2010), page 310:
  • However, the British were unable to do much about it short of going to war with St Petersburg, and that the government was unwilling to do.
  • * 2005 , (Joey Comeau), Lockpick Pornography (Loose Teeth Press):
  • I've never seen someone beaten unconscious before. That ’s lesbians for you.
    He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
  • (lb) The aforementioned quality; (used together with a verb and pronoun to emphatically repeat a previous statement).
  • * 1910 , Helen Granville-Barker, An Apprentice to Truth , page 214:
  • "She is very honourable," said Mrs. Thompson, solemnly. "Yes, one sees she is that , and so simple-minded."
  • (lb) Which, who.
  • the CPR course that she took really came in handy
  • * (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 1, scene 4:
  • By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
  • , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , passage=His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

    Usage notes

    * Some authorities prescribe that that'' should only be used in restrictive contexts (where the relative clause is part of the identification of the noun phrase) and ''which'' or ''who''/''whom'' should be used in non-restrictive contexts; in other words, they prescribe "I like the last song on the album, which John wrote". In practice, both ''that'' and ''which are found in both contexts. * In a restrictive relative clause, that'' is never used as the object of a preposition unless the preposition occurs at the end of the clause; ''which'' is used instead. Hence "this is the car I spoke of" can be rendered as "this is the car ''that'' I spoke of" or "this is the car of which I spoke", but not as *"this is the car of ''that I spoke." * That'' refers primarily to people or things; ''which'' refers primarily to things, and ''who'' refers primarily to people. Some authorities insist ''who''/''whom'' be used when making reference to people, but others, such as the ''Merriam-Webster'' dictionary, write that such prescriptions are "without foundation" and use of ''that in such positions is common and "entirely standard". Hence, one sees both "he is the man who invented the telephone" and "he is the man that invented the telephone." * When that'' (or another relative pronoun, like ''who'' or ''which ) is used as the subject of a relative clause, the verb agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun. Thus "The thing that is...", "The things that are...", etc. * In the past, bare that'' could be used, with the meaning "the thing, person, etc indicated", where modern English requires ''that which'' or ''what''. Hence the King James translation of John 3:11 is "We speak ''that'' we do know, and testify ''that'' we have seen" while the New International Version has "we speak ''of what'' we know, and we testify ''to what we have seen".

    Antonyms

    * (that thing) here, there, this, yon, yonder

    Derived terms

    * at that

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (degree) To a given extent or degree.
  • "The ribbon was that''' thin." "I disagree, I say it was not '''that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner..."
  • (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
  • I'm just not that sick.
    I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
  • To such an extent; so, such. (in positive constructions).
  • Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
  • * 1693 , (John Hacket), Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams'' (''Archbishop Williams ):
  • This was carried with that little noise that for a good space the vigilant Bishop was not awak'd with it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
  • * 1998 , David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han , page 247:
  • As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats .

    See also

    * which

    Statistics

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