Time is money in any business environment. To be successful in the business world, you must be able to create concise and easy-to-read messages. As you revise, eliminate flabby expressions, long lead-ins, fillers, redundancies, and empty words. Your audience will appreciate your brevity. Which of the following sentences contain flabby expressions?

a. In all probability, Alessia will receive a promotion this year.
b. I worked on the Mark Master campaign for 35 hours.
c. If Marie calls, please tell her we will proceed normally
d. Jason is aware of the problem and will take care of it.
e. As a general rule, you should contact Jorge; he can afford you the opportunity to access the beta version.

Generally, flabby expressions refer to additional words used in a sentence that cause ambiguity. They are the words that prevent a sentence from having a strong, clear and simple element, and having a lean sound and structure. These words are identified as overused words that virtually tell the reader nothing. Flabby expressions in a sentence can be identifiable by their ability to be replaced by a single word or a smaller number of words without distorting the message passed.

In the options given in the question, option a; 'In all probability, Alessia will receive a promotion this year.' The expression "In all probability" is a flabby expression that can be replaced y the word "probably". Also, in option e: "As a general rule, you should contact Jorge; he can afford you the opportunity to access the beta version.", the words "As a general rule" is a flabby expression that can be replaced by the word "generally". other examples of flabby expressions and their concise alternatives are:

flabby expression concise alternative

at a later date - later

at this point in time - now, presently

feel free to - please

in the event that - if

due to the fact that - because.