We know that in our writing, there are certain words that can easily sneak into sentences without us realizing that they don't belong, that they don't add anything but clutter.
One of those words is "that." Not only is it often unnecessary, but use of it creates the need for other needless phrases.
Consider our opening sentence. Here is the same sentence eliminating "that" and phrases surrounding "that."
"In our writing, certain words can easily sneak into sentences without us realizing they don't belong. They don't add anything but clutter."
Look how we've improved our writing by eliminating one word - but we eliminated it four times!
So today's lesson is to make every word purposeful. And that's that!
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