It's true there's no mistake. You can consider
this an optional rule for concision freaks like
me. Besides, in the modern world of language
style, there's a trend away from wordiness common
in classical English. (The particular structure
is necessary in some circumstances though.)
Btw, I don't follow Strunk and White. More in
line with Joseph M. Williams. You might be
interested in his book: Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace.
kb
Marcin MiÅkowski wrote thus at 03:06 PM 19-05-14:
W dniu 2014-05-19 05:21, Kumara Bhikkhu pisze:
> Please consider adding this. I'm unable to test it due to the <and>.
Well, I don't see any mistake being detected here. "It was/is... that"
is a way to express stress on some facts in the statement. This is
perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or Charles
Dickens using such constructions. Therefore, I'm not really sure if we
need to be stricter than good writers. This belongs to the deplorable
tradition of nit-picking absurd advice such as Strunk and White
disingenuous 'The Elements of Style', which criticized perfect English
(such as 'split infinitive' that has never been a mistake in reality).
Regards,
Marcin
>
> <rule id="It was/is... that" name="It was/is... that">
> <pattern>
> <token>It</token>
> <token regexp='yes'>was|is</token>
> <and>
> <token chunk="B-NP-singular" min="0"/>
> <token postag="PRP$|PDT|POS" postag_regexp="yes"/>
> </and>
> <token chunk="I-NP-singular" min="0" max="-1"/>
> <token chunk="E-NP-singular"/> <token>that</token>
> </pattern>
> <message>You may want to make this concise.</message>
> <suggestion>\3 \4 \5</suggestion>
> <short>Wordiness</short>
> <example type='incorrect'><marker>It was her last argument
> that</marker> finally persuaded me.</example>
> <example type='correct'>Her last
argument finally persuaded me.</example>
> </rule>
>
>
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