1. Rewrite the following sentence by removing as many unnecessary words as possible. A limited amount of seating space was available.

2. Rewrite this paragraph, omitting the unnecessary words and replacing them with a definite adjective or noun whenever possible.

Tuesday was really quite a lovely day. It was sort of a sunny day. The weather was OK. We went to a very nice picnic. We had a good time. The food was terrific. We did various things and obviously had a nice time.