Sunday, February 3, 2013

phrase usage - This means that or This means




I'm currently reworking my technical report and was wondering which of the following wordings is correct. If both are correct, which one is the better one?





This means that the behavior of the cmd.exe is accessible [...].



This means the behavior of the cmd.exe is accesible [...].



Answer



Both are correct. I'd usually go for the first one because it's clearer, the brain has less work to do to parse the sentence. It could depend on the rest of the sentence though; if you have fifty thousand "that"s you might want to take a few out to improve the flow, or restructure the sentence entirely.


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