7 Imagine that you were the journalist who wrote the news report in Text 2C, and your editor has asked you to reduce it to about
half its length, without losing any of the information, a On a copy of the text: put a line through any repetition of information put square brackets around any descriptive details which you do not consider necessary put a wavy line under any phrases which could be expressed in a shorter way. b Write out the reduced report, leaving out the excluded words and expressing the remaining information more concisely wherever possible. c Check your report for mistakes, then give it to vour teacher.
Someone who is eccentric means they have unusual or odd behavior, this then relates to the origin of the word which is egocentric meaning self centered. This then also goes on to relate to "center" because a person is "self centered" or egocentric.
