ACT English: Concision

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• in this regard

• ones that

• which

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• is given by her to

• is reaching

• to

This allowed the cave-creating process to be a process that repeated at different depths hundreds of feet apart.

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• repeat again and again at various different depths

• repeat at different depths that varied.

• repeat at different depths.

Unbricking a kiln after a firing is like a person uncovering buried treasure.

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• someone

• a potter

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Over many weeks, as time goes by, her collection slowly grows: clay bowls, cups, vases, and sculptures fill the studio.

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• with the passing of time,

• gradually,

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She then carries the assortment outside to the wood-fired kiln, it is a brick structure designed to bake pottery to a hardness and transform glazes to glorious colors that drying alone won't achieve.

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• the brick structure is

• a brick structure

• brick

He also began to calculate annual tables of yearly sets of astronomical data, which became the basis for almanacs published under his name from 1792 through 1797

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• covering a year's worth

• about twelve months

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Scientists have collected them from the Yellowstone National Park's thermal pools, the park abounding with geysers like Old Faithful, and from radioactive rock deep within South African gold mines.

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• pools, in contrast to the cool depths of Scandinavian fjords,

• pools, natural wonders formed by geologic magic,

• pools

It is September, and some of the trees are starting to blush red and orange at their tips.

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• Due to the fact that it is

• It turns into the month of

• Because it has turned into

The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.

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• in the completion of its route.

• in twenty-six minutes.

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