Precis Writing Hint 5 Part a

Now we take a few examples of unnecessary matter which has to be eliminated from a passage. Consider the following passage.
Finally, a word about what a national language spoken, written, and thought might do for the theatre in Pakistan. With the new awakening in social life, the need for the common tongue is being increasingly felt. Much work is being done to hammer out a common linguistic medium. The day when it is accepted will be a great day for the Pakistani theatre, as it will be for all art in the country. But the theatre, because its life-blood is the spoken word, will gain most.

Here the subject is the relationship between the theatre in Pakistan and a common language for the whole country. The writer wishes to point out that the theater will gain very much if a common spoken and written language is accepted by the whole country. The second and third sentences in the passage above may, therefore, be completely ignored in writing the précis while the rest of the passage may be compressed as follows: