26. Refer to the advice on pages 23637, and revise the

following sentences to eliminate the obvious material.

a. To register to take a course ofered by the university,

you must frst determine whether the university will

be ofering that course that semester.

b. The starting date of the project had to be postponed

for a certain period of time due to a delay in

obtaining the necessary authorization from the

Project Oversight Committee.

27. Refer to the advice on page 237, and revise the

following sentences to remove meaningless fller.

a. For all intents and purposes, our companys longterm success depends to a certain degree on

various factors that are in general difcult to

foresee.

b. The presentation was generally well received for the

most part, despite the fact that we received a rather

small number of questionnaire responses.

28. Refer to the advice on page 237, and revise the

following sentences to remove the redundancies.

a. In grateful appreciation of your patronage, we are

pleased to ofer you this free gift as a small token

gesture of our gratitude.

b. An anticipated major breakthrough in storage

technology will allow us to proceed ahead in the

continuing evolution of our products.