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Argot Language Centre IMPACT I. Rewrite these sentences, getting rid of clichés and expressing the ideas in your own words. When you're finished, exchange papers with another student and compare your results.
1. The boardroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. 2. It was raining cats and dogs, but we slept like a log through the storm. 3. When you are playing poker, you should keep your cool; otherwise, you could lose your shirt. 4. The CEO could not find a way to stay afloat, so she threw in the towel. 5. I burned the midnight oil and managed to finish the assignment at the crack of dawn. 6. Is this concept a flash in the pan or an idea whose time has come? 7. The crisis we face is the result of cutting corners instead of pulling out all the stops. 8. She stopped dead in her tracks. Lying on the floor was her son, crying his eyes out. 9. Your proposal is as good as they come; however, until the deal is signed, sealed, and delivered, we had better not count our chickens. 10. Despite the fact that I worked night after night until the wee hours, I didn't get a bonus this year. As a result, I am sadder but wiser.
II. Rewrite the following sentences, expressing the ideas in a way that allows the reader to grasp your meaning clearly, easily, and quickly.1. We were forced to utilize the moisture-removing apparatus in our motorized personal conveyance when precipitate liquid impacted our windshield. 2. The chronologically less advanced generation sometimes achieves a communication deficit with authority figures and parental units. 3. The witness was ethically disoriented truthwise, when she claimed that her interface with the accused resulted in his verbalization of an admission of guilt. 4. The parameters of our study vis-à-vis the totality of research in the field demonstrate that surveywise our validity is on a par with that of other instruments. 5. The cancellation of IMF funds to the Pacific rim countries could lead to negative distortion of mutual interrelationships between developed and developing nations.
III. Revise these sentences to make them as concise as possible.1. I myself personally feel that there is absolutely no basis in fact for the idea that UFOs exist. 2. Getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning and repeating the exact same daily routine every day for three weeks wore me out and exhausted me. 3. It has come to my attention that our competitor's products, though not equally as good as ours are, are nevertheless, at this point in time, selling better than those which we produce. 4. In my opinion, I believe that my essay is equally as good as Jill's and deserves equally as good a mark, which it would have got if it weren't for the actual fact that the professor hates me. 5. There is absolutely nothing at the present time to suggest that this almost unique set of circumstances will ever again be repeated in the foreseeable future, so we can proceed ahead with real and genuine confidence. 6. My sister and I share quite a few physical characteristics in common, such as, for example, exactly identical curly hair and a quite unique eye colour: green.
IV. Correct the following sentences where necessary.1. Irregardless of what you think, the problem between her and I has nothing to do with you. 2. If you want to be in the office pool, I need $5.00 off of you today because there will be no spots left by tomorrow. 3. Because they didn't finish the job theirself the way they should of, we will have to work real late to get it done. 4. I didn't feel like seeing nobody, so I went home, turned on the TV, and didn't do nothing for the rest of the night. 5. This use to be a real good place to work, but now we are suppose to work a full shift every day, or a penalty is deducted off of our pay. 6. Alot of young people today fight against prejudism not only in society but also within themselfs. 7. I'm suppose to ask youse if the reason for the delay is because there has been another bomb threat. 8. It's unresponsible of us to blame television or any other media for causing violence. 9. Television is partly responsible, however, for the fact that alot of ungrammatical expressions sound alright to us. 10. Between you and I, the reason I didn't speak to no one about Elmo's cheating is because he would of broke my arm.
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