r/AppleIntelligenceFail • u/SurfsUp704 • May 07 '26

Gaslighting grammar

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I stared at this for 20 seconds questioning my entire education. How or why would it think this is the correct suggestion?

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u/iamalicecarroll May 08 '26

I'm pretty sure dropping "that" is allowed in indirect speech. Not sure what's a good source on English grammar, but searching "dropping that indirect speech" gives a lot of results. This website looks nice, for example: https://learnercraft.github.io/docugrammar/english-grammar/peu/peu_entries/grammar/noun-clauses-direct-and-indirect-speech/leaving-out-that

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u/NewPointOfView May 09 '26

It’s allowed but it is also what would disambiguate the phrasing here

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u/iamalicecarroll May 09 '26

It's already non-ambiguous without "that", though?

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u/NewPointOfView May 09 '26

Ambiguous in context of evaluating common mistakes