curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-express-concerns/67cb00b1f55948097c150e71.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
It might help BLANK stress and BLANK misunderstandings.
reduce
This means to make something smaller in amount, size, or intensity.
avoid
This means to prevent something from happening.
To reduce means to make something smaller in amount, size, or intensity. For example:
We need to reduce the number of errors in the report. - This means making the number of errors smaller.
To avoid means to prevent something from happening or stay away from something. For example:
He left early to avoid traffic. - This means he wanted to prevent being stuck in traffic.
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