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Learner recognises when a compressed sentence has removed information the reader needed — chiefly who did the action and when it happened — and restores it.
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Six compressed sentences. Two lost nothing that matters.
The report, written in June, recommended closure. What is now missing?
What comes out, when that is fine, and the three-word repair.
The pronoun and the be — and with them the tense, and often the subject.
the report which was written in June
→ the report written in June
Written in June tells you nothing about who wrote it.
Ten compressed sentences. Four are complete.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight sentences. Three are already complete.
The argument is that the housing department caused the evictions. Affected by the policy, thousands lost their homes. →
Built in 1890, the bridge still carries traffic. →
The argument is that the minister withheld the news. Having been told, she left. →
The students taught by the new method scored higher. →
The argument is that automation, not trade, displaced these workers. Displaced by the changes, many families moved away. →
The argument is that the board scapegoated one department. Blamed for the failure, the department was restructured. →
Faced with rising costs, the council cut services. →
The argument is that the committee never reconsidered. Having been rejected, the proposal was never revised. →
Compress a pair, then say what it cost.
Start from these two:
The ministry collected the data in 2019. The data showed a sharp fall in applications.
Box 1: compress them into one sentence using a participle. Box 2: name one thing a reader can no longer tell, and say whether it mattered.
One sentence.
One or two sentences.
Name one thing the reader can no longer tell.