People often wonder whether they can omit words like which and that. Grammar checkers might advise you to nix these words, but relative pronouns like which and that play important roles.
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Writers often wonder about the difference between ‘which’ and ‘that.’ The words function differently depending on the sentence you use them in
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Henry Stone, a senior staff member in a regional accounting firm, could not understand why his colleague, Tim, was upset with him. Tim had CC’d Henry on an email Tim had written to a different manager. In the email, Tim requested that the manager review and analyze a report he planned to send to a
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The ideal average length of a sentence is around 20 words. You have probably noticed that business writers often exceed this. (You can measure your average sentence length using MS Word’s readability statistics function, which is accessed through the Review/Editing tab.) A client recently showed me a writing sample with an average sentence length of
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We all learned in school that every sentence requires a subject (usually a noun) telling who or what the sentence is about and a predicate (usually a verb) telling what the subject is or does. But does that tell the whole story? Are these Sentences? Take, for example, these words: Although the dance started late There is
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