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Rewrite the sentences as instructed: awkward phrasing, one adverb, complex sentence

Rewrite the following sentence as instructed in the brackets:

a. Work is where you earn money. (eliminate awkward phrasing to smooth it out)

b. From the conceptual point of view, the task is quite difficult to visualize. (replace underlined part with one adverb)

c. The manager ended the meeting, and the staff resumed their work. (change into complex sentence)

Solution

a) Work is where you earn money. (Eliminate awkward phrasing)
→ Work is an activity through which you earn money. — the informal "is where" definition-construction is replaced with a proper noun-phrase definition.

b) From the conceptual point of view, the task is quite difficult to visualize. (Replace underlined part with one adverb)
→ Conceptually, the task is quite difficult to visualize. — the phrase "from the conceptual point of view" compresses into the single adverb "Conceptually."

c) The manager ended the meeting, and the staff resumed their work. (Change into complex sentence)
→ After the manager ended the meeting, the staff resumed their work. — the original compound sentence (two independent clauses joined by "and") becomes complex: one independent clause plus one dependent clause introduced by the subordinator "After."

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