💠 Brevity (writing) 💠

Benefits➕:
💬 Learn to express yourself clearly and concisely ;
💠 Avoid redundancies in your writing ;
👁 Keep your reader's attention by writing more directly .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentence and remove an unnecessary word(-s) to make the sentence more concise. All or part of the selection can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.

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❗️INSTRUCTIONS: remove unnecessary word or set of words.

1️⃣ The storm event prompted the school to cancel classes.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... event ... > .
TIP: A storm is already an event, so event is unnecessary.

☑️ The storm event prompted the school to cancel classes.

2️⃣ The accident happened because he followed after her car closely.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... after ... > .
TIP: Followed means "came after", so the word after is unnecessary.

☑️ The accident happened because he followed after her car closely.

3️⃣ The coaches vacillated back and forth on which play to call.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... back and forth ... > .
TIP: Vacillating means "wavering between options", so back and forth is unnecessary.

☑️ The coaches vacillated back and forth on which play to call.

4️⃣ The professor bored his students with his wordy verbosity.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... wordy ... > .
TIP: Both wordy and verbosity mean "using more words than necessary, so wordy is unnecessary.

☑️ The professor bored his students with his wordy verbosity.

5️⃣ The added bonus on our trip to Washington, D.C., was seeing the cherry blossoms.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... added ... > .
TIP: Both added and bonus mean something "extra", so the word added is unnecessary.

☑️ The added bonus on our trip to Washington, D.C., was seeing the cherry blossoms.

6️⃣ They took a photo in front of the Capitol building.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... building > .
TIP: Capitol means the "building in which legislators meet", so building is unnecessary.

☑️ They took a photo in front of the Capitol building .

7️⃣ Each student wrote about a different time period.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) either < ... time ...> or < ... period > .
TIP: Both time and period can refer to a length of minutes, hours, days, years, etc. Either word can be removed from the sentence.

☑️ Each student wrote about a different time period.
OR
☑️ Each student wrote about a different time period.

8️⃣ After her run, the girl sat down on the bench.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... down ... > .
TIP: Sat means "lowered one's weight into a position resting on one's buttocks", and down means "moving from above onto a surface".

☑️ After her run, the girl sat down on the bench.

9️⃣ The author conducted 200 interviews to write a biography of the life of the reclusive poet.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word here is either < ... of the life ... > .
TIP: Biography means "the story of a person's life", so of the life is unnecessary.

☑️ The author conducted 200 interviews to write a biography of the life of the reclusive poet.

🔟 Please prune off the thorns on the roses before arranging them.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... off ... > .
TIP: Prune means "to cut off or remove", so off is unnecessary.

☑️ Please prune off the thorns on the roses before arranging them.