EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences
Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time.
By the seventh century, the Greeks’ medical writings might have vanished entirely.
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Suggested revision: By the seventh century, the Greeks’ medical writings might have vanished. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - By the seventh century, the Greeks’ medical writings might have vanished entirely.
Luckily, Islamic scholars decided that these writings were worth the trouble of preserving.
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Suggested revision: Luckily, Islamic scholars decided that these writings were worth preserving. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Luckily, Islamic scholars decided that these writings were worth the trouble of preserving.
Ninth-century caliphs of Baghdad actually took it upon themselves to establish a translation center where Greek scientific manuscripts were translated into Arabic.
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Suggested revision: Ninth-century caliphs of Baghdad established a center where Greek scientific manuscripts were translated into Arabic. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Ninth-century caliphs of Baghdad actually took it upon themselves to establish a translation center where Greek scientific manuscripts were translated into Arabic.
Just simply keeping these manuscripts in use and ascertaining that copies were available would have been a remarkable achievement for the medieval Islamic world.
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Suggested revision: Simply keeping these manuscripts in use and making copies available would have been a remarkable achievement for the medieval Islamic world. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Just simply keeping these manuscripts in use and ascertaining that copies were available would have been a remarkable achievement for the medieval Islamic world.
But Arab scholars were not content just to study and contemplate information that had already been discovered.
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Suggested revision: But Arab scholars were not content just to study information that had already been discovered. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - But Arab scholars were not content just to study and contemplate information that had already been discovered.
Arab thinkers of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries made many original contributions to the field of medical science.
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Suggested revision: Arab thinkers of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries made many original contributions to medical science. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Arab thinkers of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries made many original contributions to the field of medical science.
Al-Razi, a man known to Westerners as Rhazes, succeeded in treating patients suffering from such diseases as scabies, measles, and kidney infections.
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Suggested revision: Al-Razi, known to Westerners as Rhazes, successfully treated patients suffering from such diseases as scabies, measles, and kidney infections. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Al-Razi, a man known to Westerners as Rhazes, succeeded in treating patients suffering from such diseases as scabies, measles, and kidney infections.
Ibn Sina, who was a physician whose name is known in the West as Avicenna, was perhaps the greatest of all the medieval Arab physicians.
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Suggested revision: Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was perhaps the greatest medieval Arab physician. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Ibn Sina, who was a physician whose name is known in the West as Avicenna, was perhaps the greatest of all the medieval Arab physicians.
His book Canon of Medicine was a publication that was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century.
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Suggested revision: His book Canon of Medicine was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - His book Canon of Medicine was a publication that was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century.
Modern patients today have many reasons to feel that they owe a debt of gratitude to these medieval Islamic scholars.
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Suggested revision: Patients today have many reasons to be grateful to these medieval Islamic scholars. For more help, see section 16.
EXERCISE 16–6 Wordy sentences - Edit each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Type your answers in the boxes below. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to record your activity in your instructor's gradebook. You can also review your response at any time. - Modern patients today have many reasons to feel that they owe a debt of gratitude to these medieval Islamic scholars.