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7 DET You use that when you are referring to someone or something which is a distance away from you in position or time, especially when you indicate or point to them. When there are two or more things near you, that refers to the more distant one. □  Look at that guy. He's got red socks. □  Where did you get that hat? ● PRON That is also a pronoun. □  That looks heavy. May I carry it for you?

8 PRON You use that when you are identifying someone or asking about their identity. □  That's my wife you were talking to. □  I answered the phone and this voice went, 'Hello? Is that Alison?'

9 DET You can use that when you expect the person you are talking to to know what or who you are referring to, without needing to identify the particular person or thing fully. [SPOKEN ] □  Did you get that cheque I sent? ● PRON That is also a pronoun. □  That was a terrible case of blackmail in the paper today.

10 ADV [ADV adj/adv] If something is not that bad, funny, or expensive for example, it is not as bad, funny, or expensive as it might be or as has been suggested. □  Not even Gary, he said, was that stupid.

11 ADV [ADV adj/adv] You can use that to emphasize the degree of a feeling or quality. [INFORMAL , EMPHASIS ] □  I would have walked out, I was that angry.

12 → see also those

13 PHRASE You use and all that or and that to refer generally to everything else which is associated with what you have just mentioned. [INFORMAL , VAGUENESS ] □  I'm not a cook myself but I am interested in nutrition and that.

14 PHRASE You use at that after a statement which modifies or emphasizes what you have just said. [EMPHASIS ] □  Success never seems to come but through hard work, often physically demanding work at that.

15 PHRASE You use that is or that is to say to indicate that you are about to express the same idea more clearly or precisely. □  I am a disappointing, though generally dutiful, student. That is, I do as I'm told.

16 PHRASE You use that's it to indicate that nothing more needs to be done or that the end has been reached. □  When he left the office, that was it, the workday was over.

17 CONVENTION You use that's it to express agreement with or approval of what has just been said or done. [FORMULAE ] □  'You got married, right?'—'Yeah, that's it.'

18 PHRASE You use just like that to emphasize that something happens or is done immediately or in a very simple way, often without much thought or discussion. [INFORMAL , EMPHASIS ] □  Just like that, I was in love.

19 PHRASE You use that's that to say there is nothing more you can do or say about a particular matter. [SPOKEN ] □  'Well, if that's the way you want it,' he replied, tears in his eyes, 'I guess that's that.'

20like that → see like ➌

21this and that → see this

22this, that and the other → see this

➋ that ◆◆◆ /ðət, STRONG ðæt/

1 CONJ You can use that after many verbs, adjectives, nouns, and expressions to introduce a clause in which you report what someone has said, or what they think or feel. □  He called her up one day and said that he and his family were coming to New York. □  We were worried that she was going to die.

2 CONJ You use that after 'it' and a link verb and an adjective to comment on a situation or fact. □  I've made up my mind, but it's obvious that you need more time to think.

3 PRON You use that to introduce a clause which gives more information to help identify the person or thing you are talking about. □  …pills that will make the problem disappear. □  …a car that won't start.

4 CONJ You use that after expressions with 'so' and 'such' in order to introduce the result or effect of something. □  She became so nervous that she shook violently.

thatch /θæ tʃ/ (thatches )