Why not just say, “He wanted to make sure the window was closed.”?
To reword the OP, “All my good faith had no effect on the outcome.”
To reword the title, “I hate when that happens.”
Agreed, almost every time this happens, I think someone’s just being lazy or intentional. As a matter of personal preference, I reword sentences to exclude the word “that” altogether whenever possible, so the idea of two consecutive "that"s being unavoidable severly strains my credulity.
To reword the OP, “All my good faith had no effect on the outcome.”
sometimes when telling a story you want to have a different voice, active voice versus passive voice or something. “All the good faith I’d had” hits different than “All my good faith”
there’s better ways to word this though, while being able to keep the same tone
Why not just say, “He wanted to make sure the window was closed.”?
To reword the OP, “All my good faith had no effect on the outcome.”
To reword the title, “I hate when that happens.”
Agreed, almost every time this happens, I think someone’s just being lazy or intentional. As a matter of personal preference, I reword sentences to exclude the word “that” altogether whenever possible, so the idea of two consecutive "that"s being unavoidable severly strains my credulity.
sometimes when telling a story you want to have a different voice, active voice versus passive voice or something. “All the good faith I’d had” hits different than “All my good faith”
there’s better ways to word this though, while being able to keep the same tone