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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

"That" or Not "That"...That Is the Question!

There is a movement afoot in publishing and academic circles to remove "unnecessary" instances of the word that from writing. The problem is that it is difficult to codify when that is unnecessary and when it isn't. For example, more than half of the "experts" would omit my use of that between... Sign in to see full entry.

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