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Editor's Note: Gary Blake, director of TheCommunication Workshop, contributed this article. Blake is also theauthor of “The Elements of Business Writing.”
People are forever using the phrase, “On a scale from 1 to 10,with 1 being the least…” because it offers a range by which thelistener or reader can judge the relative importance of aparticular example.
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