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• "that kind of a thing"

  (Usage Disputes)
  
  

  
     The forms you're likely to encounter, in roughly decreasing
  order of formality, are "that kind of thing", "those kinds of
  things", "those kind of things", and "that kind of a thing".  Sir
  Ernest Gowers wrote:  "it is as well to humour the purists by
  writing _things of that kind_."

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Usage Disputes: "that kind of a thing"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 2510), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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