WorksheetsRedundancy and Wordiness
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
is a sentence that is missing either its subject or its main verb
Fused Sentence
Fragment Sentence
Comma Splices
Sentence Error
The most Common error in sentence grammar result from the misuse of clauses
Sentence Error
Run-on Sentence
Fused Sentence
None of the Above
is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifiers
Gerund Phrase
Infinitive Phrase
Participial Phrase
Adverbial Phrase
a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lock of original thought
Cliche
Euphemism
Expletive
Reduce
is a group of words consisting of an infinitive and the modifiers
Gerund Phrase
Participial Phrase
Adverbial Phrase
None of the above
