Question

The dog that is brown and sitting under the table belongs to the neighbor who happens to live next door.
Which is the BEST revision of the wordy sentence?

Answer 1

The brown dog is sitting under the next door neighbor's table.

Answer 2

The sentence written here has so many prepositions that make the meaning confusing. Instead of saying ‘the dog that is brown’, we can say ‘that brown dog’.

Instead of saying ‘neighbour who happens to live next door’, we can say ‘the neighbour living next door’. Such changes make the sentence short and meaning clear.

So, the best revision of the sentence would be like this:

That brown dog sitting under the table belongs to the neighbour living next door.