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Tighten Your Writing


Part 1 - Gobbledygook Gobbledygook is overly-wordy writing that can be a real turn-off for your reader. With your partner, re-write each of the sentences below ore concisely without changing their eanings. 1. It is requested that any employee departing this storage room ascertain that all illumination is extinguished. 2. The mechanical apparatus of this vending facility is temporarily dysfunctional. 3. The proprietor of this business establishment is at present elsewhere, en oying a midday meal. !. The store at which you have arrived is not conducting business today. ". It is strictly forbidden that any visitor in this retail store lift or manipulate the items on display. #. The surface of this wall is at present covered with a newly applied coloring matter not at the desired stage of dryness. $. %hen sub ected to precipitation, the surface of this street becomes difficult to navigate. &. 'earby is a person in wor( clothes attempting to get a ob done. ). *long this side of the street, motorists are not permitted to leave their vehicles in a stationary position. 1+. It is not udicious to evaluate the contents of a volume or the character of a human being by outward appearances alone.

Part ! " Whaddaya say## $o eti es original passages are written in an overly-co ple% way, using unusual vocabulary. With your partner, re-write each of the sentences below using si pler structure and ore user-friendly vocabulary without changing their eanings.
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1. -cintillate scintillate asteroid minim.

2. 4embers of avian species of identical plumage congregate.

3. -urveillance should precede satiation.

!. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lactate fluid.

". The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

#. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative manners.

$. *ll articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

&. %henever there are visible vapors having their provenience ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

). -orting on the parts of mendicants must be interdicted.

1+. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

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