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Originally Posted by LessinSF
I often prefer to omit the "that" as is suggested in one of the MLA sentences above:
"Some people say (that) success is one percent of talent and ninety-nine percent of hard work."
but I have a partner who always inserts the "that."
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I had a partner that would see this sentence:
D. says the law says X, however, that is no longer true.
He would say "however" should almost never be used in the middle os a sentence- that is, he mirrored the Stunk rule, or inverted it. He was far to senior for me to call bs on, and I know modern usage is breaking up the S&W rule as being a rule, but it hasn't inverted the rule.
My only response was to eliminate "however" from my brief writing toolbox.
