Editing Guides

[Dan Goldstein]

Hi Jill,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jill Mohan
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:15 AM
> To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> 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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