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Subject:Re: Usage of "that" From:Kent Newton <KentN -at- METRIX-INC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:15:00 PST
On Wednesday, January 31, 1996 4:26 PM, Dennis Hays wrote:
>My old mentor taught me to remove the "that" and re-read the sentence.
If it
>makes sense, leave it out. That said, how about the following:
> that that is is that that is not is not
>Punctuation please ...
That that is, is; that that is not, is not.
How's *that*?
Kent Newton
Senior Technical Writer
Metrix, Inc.
kentn -at- metrix-inc -dot- com
