Sunday, January 28, 2007
...that that...
Whenever I do a grammar check in word processing programs, I am told that sentences containing two thats in a row are incorrect. For instance, "I thought that that was a grammatically correct sentence." It is wrong to use "that that" or is the computer wrong? Is this considered to be a missing antecedent?
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The computer might be thinking that you typed two words twice so it wants to correct you. (That's just my take on it.)
The computer always wants me to put a comma before "which," when I don't even think there should be a comma there.
Hope this helps, maybe?
As Ritchie said, the computer program is flagging what it considers an error; using two "thats" in a row is not necessarily an error.
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