Test A: Rewriting Sentences
Directions: Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the informal expressions
(bold) with a more formal equivalent. Use a clean sheet of paper for your answers.

Example:
These exercises can easily be incorporated into an exercise routine, with each exercise fen
DONE AGAIN a number of times.

Answer: These exercises can easily be incorporated into an exercise routine, with each
exercise REPEATED a number of times.

1. With women especially, there is A LOT of social pressure to conform to a certain
physical shape.

2. Significantly, even at this late date, Lautrec was considered A BIT conservative by
his peers.

3. It focused on a subject that A LOT of the bourgeois and upper-class exhibition-
going public regarded as anti-social and anti-establishment.

4. Later Florey GOT TOGETHER with Paul Fildes in an experimental study of the use of curare to relieve the intractable muscular spasms which occur in fully developed
infection with tetanus or lockjaw.

5. When a patient is admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit, the clinical team should
avoid the temptation to START specific treatments immediately.

6. Therefore, after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved A BIG reduction in sugar intake.

7. Modern houses have so many labor-saving THINGS that it is difficult for the person
at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores, cooking, and looking after a
family.

8. Simply making the effort to reclaim this wasted STUFF for fertilizer would have a
positive effect on greenhouse releases.

9. It is difficult to imagine exactly what is meant by saying that such a classification
is natural as any collection of THINGS could be classified in this way.

10. Unfortunately, since there are so many possible explanations, the correct one is
most difficult to FIND OUT.


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