質問: that節 my husband and i have been raising two of my grandkids: their mothers are from my first marriage and addicted to drugs. it was rough the first few years, but i told my husband i couldn’t turn my back on the grandkids and he said that we together could do it. fast-forward several years and he’s retired, the kids are 14 and 9, and i feel like i get punished all the time for “ruining his life and retirement” by choosing the grandkids over him. he always starts off that it was the only choice we could make, but there isn’t a day that goes by he doesn’t have a sarcastic remark about me or the grandkids’ mothers or how dishonest and horrible all women are. he always starts off thatはなぜ that節がとれるのでしょうか?何にでもとれるわけではないですよね?よろしくお願いします
回答: > he always starts off thatはなぜ that節がとれるのでしょうか? 「うするしかなかったんだから仕方ないだろと言い始める」 ということだから、「~ と言い始める」 という文脈からして、that が置かれていても何らおかしいことはないと思います。start off というイディオムはここで自動詞の働きをしているので、後ろに文をつなげる場合に that が置かれても何もおかしなことはないと思いますが ・・・