ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY WORDS "Too many words" is a common fault of...

ELIMINATE

UNNECESSARY WORDS

"Too many words" is a common fault of bad writing. Improve each of the

following sentences by penciling out unnecessary words. Reword the sentence if

needed.

 

1. Somebody has said that words are a lot like inflated money—the more of

them that you use, the less each one of them is worth.

 

2. I was unaware of the fact that your widget could be used for security

purposes.

 

3. Mr. Jones, who is a member of the same firm, put the report together in a

hasty manner.

 

4. The reason why we failed to reply is that we were not apprised of the fact

until yesterday that somehow the report had been unavoidably delayed.

 

5. The fact that he had not succeeded was brought to my attention recently.

 

6. The degree of importance in the level of accuracy depends upon the

individual situations