What can we leave out?
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The festival's print shop offered to produce direction signs for a nominal charge. Even so, the planning group spent an inordinate amount of time debating the color of one arrow. Priya returned attention to the wording. Several lines were superfluous because they repeated directions already shown by the map, and removing them made the sign easier to scan.
A nominal printing expense did not justify endless discussion about every decorative detail. The group agreed to avoid another inordinate delay and approved a simple design. Priya checked the final proof for superfluous information, keeping the location, time, and route instructions. The saved space allowed the essential text to appear in larger letters without increasing the size of the signs.
Before you move on
Look away from the passage. Can you explain each focus word in your own words?
Original fictional passages for vocabulary practice.