Which sentence is correct:
He informed me that my appointment was cancelled.
He informed me my appointment was cancelled.
Which sentence is correct:
He informed me that my appointment was cancelled.
He informed me my appointment was cancelled.
Neither is correct. Your appointment was not canceled and nobody said it was.
sgms wrote:
Which sentence is correct:
He informed me that my appointment was cancelled.
He informed me my appointment was cancelled.
The first one is correct. The second one would be correct if it were stated thus:
He informed me, "Your appointment is cancelled."
What about:
We decided that we wanted to adopt a dog.
We decided we wanted to adopt a dog.
"That" is one of the strangest words in the English language. I really pity foreigners who try to learn English. Think of all the different contexts.
That's a dog
That's that.
That's all you can do.
It's one of the best that I've ever seen.
Why is it that you are mean to me?
Like how the hell would a non-English speaker make sense of that shit?
I thought that that would be interesting.
sgms wrote:
What about:
We decided that we wanted to adopt a dog.
We decided we wanted to adopt a dog.
The first is correct. In this case, that is acting as a demonstrative pronoung that is is triggering an adjective clause describing what was decided.
The same explanation is true for the original example.
Either is grammatically correct, but most editors would suggest that *that* is grossly overused, and to omit that extra that when the meaning of the phrase is clear without that that.
You could go with this,
We decided that we wanted to adopt a dog.
We decided we wanted to adopt a dog.
Editorial Version:
We decided to adopt a dog.