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RE: Grammar blind spots?
(26 Aug 2014 06:59 AM)Ray Kingfisher Wrote: Wrote:
The one I'm starting to have a complex about is 'that' and 'which'. No matter how much I check usage and think it's straight in my mind,. whenever I write something like 'Johnny stole the car that was the brightest and biggest' I end up thinking how many cars there are and how many are bright and big, and how much easier it would be if Johnny wasn't so fussy and just 'stole a car'.
I have occasionally re-worked a sentence just to avoid using a word I am not quite sure about grammatically. I also tend to re-write a sentence such as "They had had an interesting day." which is probably grammatically correct, but just comes out lumpy.
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