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Who Read the Report?
Although the committee had been aware of the discrepancy for months, no formal objection was raised until the report, which few of its members had read in full, reached the press. The hearings that followed lasted three days.
38 words selected · one sentence
Simpler English
The committee knew about the difference for months. Nobody complained officially. Only after the report reached the press — and few members had read all of it — did anyone object.
Same sentence, same details. Nothing cut for brevity.
Who Read the Report?
What made the plan work was less the money than the fact that nobody, least of all the people it was meant to help, had been asked whether they wanted it.
Simpler English
The plan worked mainly because nobody was asked whether they wanted it — not even the people it was supposed to help. The money mattered less than that.
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You know every word and still cannot see how the sentence is put together. Select it, open Reading Assist, and read the rewrite first: the same content in shorter, plainer English. Then go back to the original — it usually falls into place the second time.
Thought groups · 1 sentence, 34 words
Simpler English
All the patients came from one hospital. So the authors warn that the link they found — between how long people slept and how quickly they recovered — may not be true for patients treated at other hospitals.
Clauses nested inside clauses, inversions, an eighty-word Victorian sentence. Reading Assist also breaks the sentence into thought groups so you can see how the parts hang together instead of guessing, and the rewrite follows the i+1 comprehensible input principle: hard enough to learn from, close enough to reach.
Original
Had the terms been made public earlier, the objection would almost certainly have been raised before the vote.
Simpler English
If people had seen the terms sooner, someone would almost certainly have objected before the vote.
raise an objection · to say formally that you disagree
Word listUse the rewrite to confirm the meaning you had guessed. If you want to be certain, tap once for a translation. Expressions worth keeping are marked in the panel, and you can add them to your word list from there.
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A faithful restatement of the whole sentence. Nothing is cut for brevity, and no detail quietly disappears.
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