twovests wrote on February 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM

Can you give an example in a full sentence? (gen)

flabberghaster OP wrote on February 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM

The full context of the first was like "It gives us the same strange out of place feeling as when we see an actor who we can't quite place how we know them."

The second clause describing the actor feels redundant to me, it feels very awkward. Having the pronoun for the same subject in there feels weird. "An actor that ..." Means that ... Is specifically referring to the actor. Then we have "... we don't know where we know them" feels like a whole new sentence with its own subject and object. It feels unrelated to me. The them is redundant, to me.

twovests wrote on February 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM

So I don't know grammar good enough to know what a clause is, and I grew up where people didn't always speak "standard" english in the first place, so grain of salt, but it sounds fine to me.

I'd say "where we know them from" but that only sounds a smidge more standard