There is no need for the present progressive tense is saying

Anders Ackebo is saying that because of Landsbankis economic situation, they cant participate in the stock. 

Anders Ackebo says they cannot participate in the stock because of Landsbankis’ economic situation. 

12.31 The way both, the latter and the former are used makes the following sentence extremely hard to read (see 15.36). The author, in my opinion, should have spelled out what both stands for at the beginning of the sentence. Note the singular form of the verb changes which links our perception to the word function while what changes are components. The use of double inverted commas “anyone” gives us the impression that the author either has doubts about the findings or is not satisfied with them (see 2.15). And the last use of the latter adds much more to the ambiguity of the sentence:

While both are examples of suppliers the former represents components with a certain function that changes the value of the end product and that the supplier has developed.

The latter represents something that is necessary for the product’s finalization although could be supplied by “anyone.” The subcontractors of the latter generally are not familiar of the customer market. 

12.32 The following sentence is extremely hard to read. It is mainly due to the way first, second and the latter are used:

Out of these three, Axelson and Wynstra seem to believe that the first and the second are commonly considered as stereotype for purchased business services while the latter, though common in the market, is not as commonly considered. 

12.33 It is better not to repeat the same word twice in the same sentence:

The company’s main business is similar to Trinity’s as the company mainly develops and produces aluminum profiles. 

Like Trinity, the company mainly develops and produces aluminum profiles.  12.34 I suggest that you get rid of the second mention of the word products:

The company wants to produce more efficient products that in the end will lead to cheaper products. 

The company wants to produce more efficient products and sell them at lower rates. 

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12.35 The correct version shows how one can get rid of the second mention of the same noun without even having to replace it with a pronoun:

The range of possible strategies is wider in the case of coercive pressures than in the case of mimetic pressures. 

The range of possible strategies is wider in coercive than mimetic pressures.  12.36 The word that is mentioned five times in this sentence:

The background if we shall take it short is that the process that we can see that we are in the middle nowadays is that the competition is increasing and it is clear that it has an effect on all industries. 

The process we are in nowadays shows a surge in competition affecting all industries. 

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WHEN WRITING ENGLISH sentenCes

12.37 The following is a sentence which is hard to read. The reason is due to the way but also…and the relative clause starting with which are used:

The syllabus for each program gives a description of its program content, but also the objectives for personal development of the student, which is addressed too in the vision document. 

The syllabus describes the content and objectives of each course as outlined in the vision document. 

12.38 Are there two courses or one course? In fact there is one, although the following sentence might give the impression that there are two. Also, try to be careful with the use of expressions of time, such as this autumn term. If the year is not specified, it could mean the autumn of any other year, and that is not possible of course:

This autumn term we are offering for the first time a course as pure e-learning course, Business English Online. 

This year (2010), we offer for the first time a business English online course in autumn.  12.39 Pay attention to expressions referring to time when you write. Make sure you as a writer can tell the time frame these expressions refer to. It is not so in the following:

In the last few years and the year to come we have had (or will have) 20 doctoral students.  We hope to have 20 doctoral students by 2011. 

12.40 The shorter your non-finite clauses are the better (see 12.5). You can always resort to the normal English sentence structure of subject + verb + object (see 12.1).

Giving feedback and influencing their own education is the subject for one of the committees in School Student Association called the Quality committee. 

The quality committee of the school’s Student Association gives the students the feedback that plays a role in their education. 

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12.41 There are so many elements in this sentence that are redundant. The sentence is also awkward and hard to read. Also note the wrong use of he or she which the author employs to refer backward to the plural noun candidates:

The design of the post-graduate education is to some extent fixed but since the doctoral candidates are supposed to create a plan for their time as doctoral candidates, (most of all doctoral candidates have written plan), he or she is contributing to the design and development of the program. 

The design of post-graduate education is to some extent fixed. Doctoral candidates are required to write a plan on how to spend their research time. 

12.42 The following is another sentence, which can be described as convoluted. This is due mainly to verbosity, represented in the use of the passive construction and the relative clause, which repeats what the sentence says earlier:

The development of the research activities at the school has been supported by the contract with the Government, which resulted in considerable research resources from the Government. 

Under the contract, the school has received substantial funds from the government for research. 

12.43 Do not repeat the same structure twice unless it is a term or an expression you think