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Your client is right _within their house style_, which you get paid to
follow.
Outside of that narrow context, there aren't a lot of "nevers" in
sensible usage. See http://tinyurl.com/2qk8d4 for a better approach to
"that."
-- Dan Goldstein
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> From: Jill Mohan
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:15 AM
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> Subject: Editing Guides
>
> ... A client told me: "that" and "the"
> should never follow each other. Ex:
> "verify that the service has started..."
>
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