This sentence from an email shows one example of the confusion that can result from dropping the leading ‘that’ from a subordinate clause:
It is true that such omissions of the conjunction, increasingly regular in recent writing and condoned by many grammarians, are often unproblematic and unambiguous; yet widespread instances of attempts to compensate for its absence suggest that the conjunction should not be viewed as obsolete and is certainly not always unnecessary.
superfluous comma; I am afraid, there is
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