Your lungs are here. That you breathe with

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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:blossom: In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. :blossom:

Hi!

Check-up

A: What else does the doctor check?
B: Check your lungs.
A: My lungs. Where are my lungs?
B: Your lungs are here. That you breathe with. ←
A: Oh, yes, breathing. Oh, what else.
B: He should also check your blood pressure.

Which is grammatically correct?

1- Your lungs are here. That you breathe with. ←Original text

2- Your lungs are here, that you breathe with.

Thank you

Online audio to text converter:
Your lungs are here that you breathe with.

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The best I can do to punctuate that line is :
“ Your lungs are here — that you breathe with.”

But this is still not good.
To me, “that” is too far away from “your lungs” to make sense. “That” seems to be referencing “here”. Better lines would be:

“Your lungs, which you breathe with, are here.”
“Your lungs are here. They are what you breathe with.”

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:
Very nice.

Let me see if I understand correctly.
The first one is not correct but the second one could be correct. Am I right?
(We can’t change the sentence, but we can change the punctuation, because the punctuation may be wrong.)

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The first one, in which I inserted a dash, uses the words from the audio clip, but even with my punctuation, it’s not clear.

Either of my two new sentences are clearer, but I had to change the words around to do it.

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:
Very nice

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You must be an important person, because I don’t know why people still bother anwering your questions. If you take that as an insult, please do, because it is one. However, I do so love you, I don’t know why, but I do. :beating_heart: :beating_heart: