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How can I reword this sentence?

How can I reword this sentence such that it is not as redundant?

  • If the table contains more than 10 entries, only the first 10 will be displayed. Is this correct? It seems redundant to me.

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    You could try Only the first ten entries of the table will be displayed. Or if you want to make sure the reader knows that fewer than ten are possible you could write At most, the first ten entries of the table will be displayed. But what you have seems correct to me, and not really redundant. EDIT: I have removed the conditional part of your sentence (the "if" clause) because I feel it is unnecessary. This is contentious according to the commentary below. The reason I advocate this structure is that the outcome does not change based on the number of entries in the table. Only ten entries will ever be displayed. You would only really need a conditional statement here if you had an actual condition: If the table contains more than 10 entries, only the first 10 will be displayed unless the user checks this box.

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Actually it seems the best way to say it. It might seem redundant because you repeat "ten", maybe, but any other way seems to add words that won't help to make it more simple. EDIT: I'd like to add that if that sentence is uttered for the first time, you should leave it like this. If the topic has been treated already before, or if the other person knows about it already, then you can consider using the variant that Kit suggested in his answer. I'm referring to the one that goes "At most, the first ten entries of the table will be displayed."

Or this. The table can display only up to 10 leading entries. I believe the use of "up to" takes into consideration the fact, the table can display less than 10 entries, if that is the case. Similarly, by stating "only up to 10 leading entries", you are stating that once the 10 entry limit is breached, only the initial 10 entries will be displayed.

The first 10 entries will be shown. Keep it short.

Christopher Mahan

Not that the other answers are wrong, but you could also use truncate: The table will display the entries in order, truncating those after the tenth. Maybe this is useful.

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