The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive relative clause ("She took the test that was hard. ") as a demonstrative pronoun ("That was hard. ") as a demonstrative adjective ("That test was hard. ") as a complementizer/subordinating conjunction. ("He asked that she go. ") as an adverb ("The test wasn't that bad. ") In the Old English language that was spelled þæt.
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- The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive relative clause ("She took the test that was hard. ") as a demonstrative pronoun ("That was hard. ") as a demonstrative adjective ("That test was hard. ") as a complementizer/subordinating conjunction. ("He asked that she go. ") as an adverb ("The test wasn't that bad. ") In the Old English language that was spelled þæt. It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, þ, with the ascender crossed, ꝥ . In Middle English the letter Ash, æ, was replaced with the letter a, so that that was spelled þat, or sometimes þet. The ascender of the þ was reduced (making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn, ƿ), which necessitated writing a small t above the letter to abbreviate the word that . In later Middle English and Early Modern English the þ evolved into a y shape, so that the word was spelled yat (although the spelling with a th replacing the þ was starting to become more popular) and the abbreviation for that was a y with a small t above it . This abbreviation can still be seen in reprints of the 1611 edition of the King James Version of the Bible in places such as 2 Corinthians 13:7.
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- The word that is used in the English language for several grammatical purposes: to introduce a restrictive relative clause ("She took the test that was hard. ") as a demonstrative pronoun ("That was hard. ") as a demonstrative adjective ("That test was hard. ") as a complementizer/subordinating conjunction. ("He asked that she go. ") as an adverb ("The test wasn't that bad. ") In the Old English language that was spelled þæt.
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