User:John of Reading/AWB settings/Repeated T

That that
There are a couple of rules here that tackle "that that".

One rule spots "that that the", "that that this", and a few other expressions, and drops one "that". I've found that to be quite effective. There are a few false positives where the first "that" comes from a colloquial phrase: "It was only after that that the full extent of the problem became clear"; some of these are coded in the rule. There are very rare exceptions where the second "that" comes from an inverted sentence form: (Direct speech) "That this is necessary is most disappointing" (Indirect speech) "He said that that this was necessary was most disappointing"

A longer rule tries to skip straight past occurrences that could easily be correct, where the preceding word is something typically followed by "that" as a conjunction ("evidence that", "said that", "in the same way that") and the following word is something that could easily be preceded by "that" as a demonstrative ("that man", "that definition") or as a pronoun ("that is", "that was"). Hence the rule will correctly skip past "The surveyor said that that property would have to be pulled down". But note the subtlety: the rule will also skip past the incorrect "The campaigner said that that property is theft".

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