Sentence correction

6. Some people believe in capital punishment, while other people are against it; there are many opinions on this subject. (Remove redundancy)

7. Avoidance of tooling costs is accomplished if you pick a stock size. (Remove nominalizations)

8. She took dance classes. She had no natural grace or sense of rhythm. She eventually gave up the idea of becoming a dancer. (Remove choppiness)

9. Bears emerge from hibernation in the spring. They wander through wetlands. They feed mainly on grasses. (Remove choppiness)

10. Doonesbury cartoons satirize contemporary politics. Readers don't always find this funny. They demand that newspapers not carry the strip. (Combine the sentences using conjunctions)

11. They have finished the new product design. (Make passive)

12. The course will be finished by July. (Make active)

13. In the end we had eventually agreed to go by the shortest route. (Remove redundancy)

14. You can do this by subordinating the less to the more important ideas e.g. It was quite dark; for the sun had set an hour before and the moon had not yet risen when the thief carefully opened the door of his house and prepared to go about his business. (Remove choppiness)

15. This report is intended for people with some electronics background but have little or no knowledge of geophysical prospecting. (use parallelism)

16. The house will be built by the construction crew in five months. (make active)

17. The dolphins had learned many tricks. (make passive)

18. The police conducted an investigation into the matter. (Remove nominalizations)