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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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The scoring team then attempts a try or conversion , more commonly known as the point ( s ) -after-touchdown ( PAT ) , which is a single scoring opportunity .
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After a touchdown , the scoring team attempts a try for 1 or 2 points ( see below ) .

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The species most commonly referred to as " pigeon " is the species known by scientists as the rock dove , one subspecies of which , the domestic pigeon , is common in many cities as the feral pigeon .
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The feral domestic pigeon is often called the " rock dove " : it is common in many cities .

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The Kuomintang ( KMT ) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the mid-1920s , but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former Chinese Communist Party allies and new regional warlords .
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After the Kuomintang ( KMT ) , the governing party of China , unified the country in the 1920s , the civil war between it and its past ally Communist Party of China began .