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- Our prime vendor relationships also make it possible for the customer’s, who require it, to purchase your product through their designated prime vendors.
- Our relationships with prime vendors will allow customers to purchase your product through their designated prime vendor.
- He leaned out the window, blowing a whistle that was more noisome than effective.
- He leaned out the window, blowing a whistle that was more obnoxious than effective. (Noisome: offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell; malodorous)
- Please fill out form Below for a free booklet and your snail mail address as the packet is large.
- Please fill out the form below for your free booklet. Include your snail-mail address as the packet is too large to download. (You won’t receive both a booklet and an address.)
- I watched her through the open door where she’d evidently been lurking and observing the byplay between the boy and I.
- I watched her through the open door, where she’d evidently been lurking and observing the byplay between the boy and me. (Use I when it’s the subject, me when it’s the object. Or: I at the beginning, me at the end.)
- As a preferred client, we provide you with objective, sound advise.
- We will provide you, our preferred client, with sound, objective advice. (We are not the preferred client.)
- A handfull of streetlights reviled a row of shop windows.
- A handful of streetlights revealed a row of shop windows.
- Some sites aren’t even available to the public, they serve as a place for salepeople, managers, and clients to exchange information.
- Some sites are unavailable to the public so that salespeople, managers, and clients may exchange information privately. (The original sentence is a classic comma splice.)
- “But I don’t want to go”. He whined.
- “But I don’t want to go,” he whined.
- Let us help you gain efficiencies and save you money in the process!
- Save money while increasing your efficiency!
- Layout templates are available on our Web sight .
- Download layout templates from our website. (The original is passive voice.)