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Old 15-Oct-2006, 18:05
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork View Post
As written, your first sentence has no main verb. You need to get rid of "that".
That's what I thought, until I gave the writer the benefit of the doubt and read that as a pronoun; maybe the lady had called the cats "flea-bitten vermin".

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