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Redundancy

Description:

Redundancy questions deal with wordiness.

  • A sentence shouldn't say the same thing twice.
  • Right answers are generally short and to the point.

Approach:

Remember that the correct answers to many grammar questions are quite short. Ask yourself:
is all the information in the sentence necessary, or is it repetitive?


1) Two Redundancy Traps:

1. Word and its Definition

Incorrect:

"The dramatic movie filled with drama caused people to cry."

If it's a dramatic movie, we already know that it's "filled with drama."

Correct:

"The dramatic movie caused people to cry."

2. Word and its Opposite

It is often not necessary to mention the definition of the opposite of a concept in a sentence.

Incorrect:

"The private golf club, which is not public, is very well maintained."

If we know the club is private, we don't have to mention that it's not public.

Correct:

"The private golf club is very well maintained."


2) Spot the redundancy problems in the following sentences:

  1. Both you as well as I attended the basketball game last week.

  2. We haven't hardly any of our original team members left in the current lineup.

  3. In the year 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

  4. I woke up at 9:00 AM this morning.

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