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ACT Aspire English: Eliminating Wordiness 1 Views
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right at first
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Okay See th s Spyros were on seven of twelve
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and a noun down to paragraph three right at first
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right there So let's skin down to it A whole
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bunch of stuff about james meredith our hero here getting
- 00:15
into college Finally after try try trying again Alright now
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paragraph three The governor of mississippi right At first i
- 00:24
tried to block meritus enrollment at ole miss but he
- 00:27
eventually agreed to allow meredith to register our governor mississippi
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right at first Well clearly whoever wrote this did not
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attend to find ole miss university Well the author is
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trying to say that the governor first tried to block
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meritus enrollment but then reluctantly agree Agreed to allow him
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to register nothing grammatically wrong with right at first But
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it's certainly not winning any points for style or sophistication
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Get too many words and propositions to make the most
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effective choice and just sounds Jargon e like a bad
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writing for style points go for the choice that shortened
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sweet initially effectively communicates with one word What the other
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choices tried to communicate and three or four so should
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read The governor of mississippi initially tried to block emeritus
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enrollment Yada yada But that's it Yes Just just just
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just
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