In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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Question: A decisive victory is a military victory in battle that definitively resolves the objective being fought over , ending one stage of the conflict and beginning another stage .

Answer: The term decisive victory refers to a military victory that decides a matter or a conflict .

Question: The Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) is a neurological scale which aims to give a reliable and objective way of recording the state of a person 's consciousness for initial as well as subsequent assessment .

Answer: Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is a scale that is used to measure the consciousness of a person .

Question: A ravine is generally a fluvial slope landform of relatively steep ( cross-sectional ) sides , on the order of twenty to seventy percent in gradient .

Answer:
A ravine usually has steep sides , and they are 20-70 % in gradient .