Question

Time is money in any business environment. To be successful in the business world, you must be able to create concise and easy-to-read messages. As you revise, eliminate flabby expressions, long lead-ins, fillers, redundancies, and empty words. Your audience will appreciate your brevity. Which of the following sentences contain flabby expressions? Check all that apply. a. Feel free to help yourself to the delectable desserts in the break room until such time as they are all consumed.b. Alessia will probably be promoted.c. In the event that Marie calls, please inform her that we will be proceeding along the normal course of events.d. He seldom returns text messages. Jorge can give you access to the beta version.

Answer 1

Out of the given statements, the following sentences contain flabby expressions:

Option a. Feel free to help yourself to the delectable desserts in the break room until such time as they are all consumed.

• It contains unnecessary narration of the traits of things described.

Option c. In the event that Marie calls, please inform her that we will be proceeding along the normal course of events.

• It contains nonessential use of highly operational language to convey a simple message.