ClearTips: Stunning sentences

That

As a pronoun for something just mentioned, That is another of those useful monosyllables. But as with the backward reference for This, be sure that it is perfectly clear what That refers to.

That is why the best outcome from Kyoto would have been a modest, politically workable agreement to curb emissions of greenhouse gases pending further study.

A pronoun doing its duty: standing for many more words preceding it.

That will teach them to disrespect their bodies.

That leaves Mr. Mbeki treading a delicate line between keeping them happy and suffocating the businesses on which he knows full well economic success depends.

That, in fact, is part of the problem: the golfer has all the time in the world to think.

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