In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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Question: Although the French troops would have more motorised units than the Germans , they could not hope to reach their places in the battle before the enemy did .

Answer: Although the French troops would have a higher proportion of motorised units than their German adversaries , in view of the respective distances to be covered , they could not hope to reach their assigned sector advancing in battle deployment before the enemy did .


Question: Its name means , " Forest of Sweet Osmanthus " .

Answer: Its name means " Forest of Sweet Osmanthus " , owing to the large number of fragrant sweet osmanthus trees located in the region .


Question: All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and often described together as " Taxus baccata " .

Answer:
All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and some botanists treat them all as subspecies or varieties of just one widespread species ; under this treatment , the species name used is " Taxus baccata " , the first yew described scientifically .