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(I think B&E stands for breaking and entering.)[/quote]Thanks for your quick reply, Ron. That was already established some three weeks ago thanks to Mr. Micawber.
a better formulation would be:
"This car, in contrast with THAT car, is better."
if you remove the phrase in the commas, the sentence should still make sense.
"This car is better" works
"This car it is better" doesn't work
thus you remove the 'it'
Re: Stock Phrase 
Am I three weeks late?
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