Professional Tone

Instructions: Adjust the tone of the sentences below from highly formal to professional. For example:

Weak: The opening of the account in accordance with current procedures will have occurred prior to the beginning of business tomorrow.
Revised: We will open the account before tomorrow.

1. The incidence of tardiness among our employees has reached epidemic proportions.

Your Answer:

Reveal Revised Sentence

Tardiness among our employees is a serious problem.

2. Your advice has been taken into account, and I will make changes accordingly based on your recommendations.

Your Answer:

Reveal Revised Sentence

I have considered your advice and will make the changes you recommend.

3. There is an issue of insufficient funds relating to recent transactions in the Atlas account, and it may be necessary to involve security in an investigation of the account in question.

Your Answer:

Reveal Revised Sentence

The Atlas account is overdrawn, and security may need to investigate the account.

4. The letter would need to have been sent prior to the date on which they closed their account.

Your Answer:

Reveal Revised Sentence

The letter should have been sent before they closed their account.

5. The deposit of funds into your account should have been made in advance to your writing checks for payment from the account.

Your Answer:

Reveal Revised Sentence

You should have deposited funds into your account before you wrote checks on it.