Re: Usage of "that"

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


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