OWL at Purdue Logo

This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/). When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice at bottom.

Sentence Style

These OWL resources contain information on how to write clear and strong sentences and include exercises on how to eliminate wordiness.

Please use the navigation bar on the left or the links below to access the individual exercises.

Eliminating Wordiness

The three exercises in this exercise ask you to revise sentences to make them more concise. Print the exercises and correct the errors. Click the "Go to Answers" link to see the answers for this exercise.

Copyright ©1995-2013 by The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our terms and conditions of fair use.