# Page 5 of 434

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**ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English**

||Rule 5.4|Wording for rule revised.|
|---|---|---|
|||Explanatory text and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.|
|Rule 5.5|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|||Explanatory text in the examples revised.|
|||New explanatory text and examples added.<br>Help added.|
|Section 6 – Descriptiv|e writing|
|Content structure|Explanatory text revised.|
|Rule 6.1|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 6.2|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 6.3|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 6.4|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 6.5|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 6.6|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Section 7 – Safety ins|<br>tructions|
|Definitions|Explanatory text added at the end.<br>Help added.|
|Rule 7.1|Explanatory text and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.<br>Help added.|
|Rule 7.2|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 7.3|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Section 8 – Punctuati|on and word count|
|Punctuation|Explanatory text revised.|
|||Reference book added and information revised.|
|Rule 8.1|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory text and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.|
|Rule 8.2|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory text revised where necessary.<br>Help added.|
|Rule 8.3|Wording for rule revised.|

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||Rule 8.4|Wording for rule revised.|
|---|---|---|
|||Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 8.5|No changes.|
|Rule 8.6|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory texts and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.|
|||8.6.1. Help added.|
|||8.6.2. Changed to include a revised word count for numbers together<br>with units of measurement.|
|||8.6.7. Proper nouns of individuals, groups, organizations, and<br>geopolitical entities added. Related examples added.|
|Rule 8.7|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Section 9 – Writing practi|<br>ces|
|General|Subtitle before rules 9.2 revised.|
|Rule 9.1|Wording for rule revised.|
|||Explanatory texts revised or changed where necessary.|
|||How to use a different sentence construction, first example changed.|
|Rule 9.2|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 9.3|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|Rule 9.4|Explanatory text revised or changed where necessary.|
|General recommendation<br>|s (GR<br>|
|GR-1 thru GR-6|Explanatory text and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.|
|GR-7|New general recommendation for “Inclusive language” added.|
|GR-8|New general recommendation for “Possessive form” added.|

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# Page 7 of 434

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**Highlights**

**ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English**

|Part 2 – Dictionary||
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|Introduction||
|||Explanatory text and related examples revised or changed where<br>necessary.|
|||Column 1 (explanation). New explanatory text related to “Verbs” added<br>to include regular, irregular, auxiliary and modal verbs. Related<br>examples added.|
|||How to select words. Text revised and flowchart revised.<br>List of recurring errors revised.<br>List of approved verbs added.|
|Word list||
|General changes|Column 3 title changed to read: STE EXAMPLE.|
|||Column 4 title changed to read: Non-STE example.|
|Detailed changes||
|NOTE:A word in UPPE<br> A word in lowerc|RCASE letters is approved in STE.<br>ase letters is not approved in STE.|
|NOTE:The word “revise<br>texts. The word|d” tells that only a small number of words are replaced or changed in the applicable<br>“changed” tells that the applicable text is fully changed or almost fully changed.|
|abandon (v)|Approved alternatives inverted.|
|||For the second approved alternative STOP (v), STE and non-STE<br>examples changed.|
|ABRASIVE (adj)|STE example revised.|
|acceptable (adj)|Second and third STE examples revised.|
|ACCIDENT (n)|STE example revised.|
|accomplish (v)|Help revised.|
|||Second STE and non-STE examples revised.|
|accumulation (n)|Second STE and non-STE examples revised.|
|act (v)|Approved meaning revised. Non-STE example revised.|
|action (n)|TASK (n) added as an approved alternative. Related STE and non-STE<br>examples added.|
|activate (v)|Removed from the word list.|
|ACTIVATE (v)|Added to the word list as approved.|
|active (adj)|Removed from the word list.|
|ACTIVE (adj)|Added to the word list as approved.|

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activity (n) TASK (n) and PROCEDURE (n) added as an approved alternative. Related STE and non-STE examples added. For the approved alternative WORK (n), STE and non-STE examples changed.

ADJACENT (adj) STE example revised. adopt (v) STE example revised. adverse (adj) STE and non-STE examples revised. Help revised. Related STE and non-STE examples added. advisable (adj) STE and non-STE examples revised. advise (v) First and second STE and non-STE examples revised. affect (v) Help revised. Related STE and non-STE examples added. AFTER (conj) STE example revised. AGREE (v) STE example revised. AID (n) STE example revised. alert (v) STE and non-STE examples revised. allocate (v) STE and non-STE examples revised. allowable (adj) Second STE and non-STE examples revised. already (adv) Second STE and non-STE examples revised. ALTERNATIVE (adj) STE example revised. ALTERNATIVE (n) STE example revised. alternatively (adv) STE example revised. amendment (n) First STE example revised. among (prep) STE and non-STE examples revised. annotation (n) STE and non-STE examples revised. RECORD (v) added as an approved alternative. Related STE and nonSTE examples added. another (adj) ADD (v) removed from the approved alternatives. First and third STE and non-STE examples revised. appear (v) Second and third STE examples revised. APPLY (v) Second approved alternative added. Related STE examples aligned. APPROVAL (n) STE example revised. approve (v) STE example revised. AROUND (prep) Help added. Related STE and non-STE examples added. arrest (v) Second and non-STE examples revised.
