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I have always been a poor speller, so I have a handy dictionary app

But then I would discover a new and totally different topic, and I would dive into that.

Low learning curve

You only need to charge yourself up

pick up a new tongue

Peter tasted the wine (that) his mother bought for himPeter tasted the wine that/*() had cost only 12$.

"That" is a conjunction in this type of sentence. (In "the cat that jumped over the wall", it is a relative pronoun.) It is in general OK to leave out the conjunction "that" now and then, as long as no ambiguity arises.

The easy way to tell which is technically correct is to substitute he and him for who and whom, then rearrange the word order to see which sounds right.“Who were you speaking to?” becomes “You were speaking to he” — which is clearly incorrect.

I could barely utter the words