“Endurance is the ability to do something that’s hard.” My question is on details.🌷 Thank you.🌷
Why ‘that is’ used? Because, sentence already include a subject, ‘is’ which follows endurance. Is there an omitting after ‘something’ related to Adjective (Relative) Clause? Thank you🌷
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"that is " can be omitted as it refers to "something". so the sentence will be "Endurance is the ability to do something hard." and it's all because of indefinite pronoun like "something, somewhere, somebody ". for example, We're going to go somewhere nice this summer (we're going to go somewhere that is nice ) . let's do something cool ( let's do something that is cool)
I think the use of "that's" in this sentence gives more emphasis to the indefinite pronoun something. It can be removed though and the sentence will still be grammatically correct but less emphatic.
In my opinion, the sentence looks more attractive without "that's". Isn't it so?
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This sentence is grammatically correct. It's got a relative pronoun 'that'. Actually, 'that's' can be replaced by 'which is'. But, it's better to omit the relative pronoun: Endurance is the ability to do something hard.
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