Exercise eight: cut wordy phrases

Last updated on September 10, 2020

Match the unnecessarily long phrase with its shorter counterpart:

Phrase Matching Exercise
Word phrase	Short phrase
a number of	please
owing to the fact that	change
at the present time	about
in a timely manner	to
in an effort to	if
make a modification to	because
in regard to	now
provide the opportunity for	then
it is requested that you	promptly
in the event of	many
after this is accomplished	let

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Exercise eight: cut wordy phrases

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