Writing Improvement Exercises

Wordy Expressions $($L$\mathrm{.}0\mathrm{.}1)$

YOUR TASK. Revise the following sentences to eliminate wordy phrases.

$16.$ We cannot complete the report at this point in time due to the fact that we encountered difficulties in our research and lost a collaborator to serious illness.

$17.$ In the normal course of events, we would probably buy a larger building; however, in view of the fact that the economic outlook has dimmed, we cannot.

$18.$ In very few cases do the new names of merged corporations signal clearly what the companies actually do$.$

$19.$ Inasmuch as our tax and regulatory policies hamper a return of manufacturing to the United States, they should be reformed.