. . . frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelation of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
Is ‘that’ a pronoun that referring to any words or that-clause is a noun clause and object of ‘forget’?
Answer
Take out as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, and you will see that it’s a subordinator, introducing the clause a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
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