Redundancy and Wordiness

Occurs when a writer unnecessarily repeats words, phrases, and ideas that could have been omitted without the loss of meaning

• Pleonasm

• Redundancy

• Wordiness

• None of the above

Correct the redundant sentence:

Turn left at the green colored house

• Turn left at the green colored house

• Turn left at the color green school

• Turn left at the green house

• None of the Above

identify the unnecessary words

Please repeat again what you said.

• Again

• Repeat

• What

• Said

identify the redundancy expression:

My personal opinion is that the walls should be painted blue

• Opinion

• My personal

• My personal opinion

• should be

identify the redundancy expression:

Any and all overdue books should be returned today.

• Any

• Any and all

• And all

• Any and all overdue

The use of several words when a few can express the same idea more clearly and concisely

• Redundancy

• Cliche

• Wordiness

• Pleonasm

identify the Intensifier/s:

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard

• Incredibly

• Hard

• Good

• Nothing

Identify Phrases to omit:

This is because there are fewer farmer at the present time

• fewer farmer

• present time

• at the present time

• none of the above

Reducing clauses to Phrases:

New York is a city that contains many skyscraper

• New York a city that has many Skyscraper

• New York is a city containing many skyscraper

• both are correct

• none of the above

there are likely to be many researcher raising question about this methodological approach

• there are many researcher raising question

• there are many researcher raising question about this methodological approach

• Many researcher are likely to raise question

• none of the above