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Level: advanced
Category: vocabulary
Topic: redundant words
Eliminate Redundant Words (1)
Which words can you omit?
Eliminate words that aren't necessary and re-write the
sentence.
Example: Charles didn't
stand a chance as the odds were negatively against
him.
Charles didn't stand a
chance as the odds were against him.
- Don't try to be smart if you want to keep your job and be
employed.
- Is there a good hotel in town that's not too expensive and is
fairly reasonable in price?
- This is the third consecutive losing day in a row for the Tokyo
stock market.
- The company sells its product around the world and operates in
global markets as well.
- Three witness saw the crime with their own eyes.
- A computer is a machine that does fast calculations at rapid
speeds and analyzes large quantities of information and data.
- The car's experimental features were all new to us and
something we had never seen before.
- The workers shut down the machine, unplugged it, disconnected
it from the electricity and proceeded to fix it.
- On holiday last summer, someone stole my wallet with all of my
credit cards, cash and paper money in it.
- The guilty party will be found even if it takes us years to
seek him out.
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- Don't try to be smart if you want to keep your job.
- Is there a good hotel in town that's not too expensive.
- This is the third losing day in a row for the Tokyo stock
market.
- The company sells its product around the world.
- Three witness saw the crime.
- A computer is a machine that does calculations at rapid speeds
and analyzes large quantities of data.
- The car's experimental features were all new to us.
- The workers shut down the machine, unplugged it and proceeded
to fix it.
- On holiday last summer, someone stole my wallet with all of my
credit cards and cash in it.
- The guilty party will be found even if it takes us years.
Created:
2007-05-28
Updated:
2007-05-28
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