Remove redundant words or phrases
Key notes :
✅ What are Redundant Words?
- Redundant words are unnecessary words that repeat the meaning already expressed in a sentence.
- Removing them makes writing clearer, more concise, and effective.
📘 Examples of Redundancy:
| Redundant Phrase | Improved Version |
|---|---|
| Repeat again | Repeat |
| End result | Result |
| Basic fundamentals | Fundamentals |
| Past history | History |
| Free gift | Gift |
| Advance planning | Planning |
| Close proximity | Proximity |
| Final conclusion | Conclusion |
✏️ Why Remove Redundancy?
- Makes writing stronger and easier to read.
- Avoids wordiness.
- Shows mature and effective communication skills.
💡 Tips to Avoid Redundancy:
- Say it once – If a word already conveys the idea, don’t repeat it.
- Read aloud – It helps you hear the extra words.
- Look for pairs – Common redundancy comes in word pairs.
- Use a dictionary or thesaurus – To understand if two words mean the same.
- Revise your work – Check for repetitive words while editing.
🔍 Practice:
Sentence: She made a final conclusion about the issue.
Revised: She made a conclusion about the issue.
Learn with an example
🎯 Select the word or phrase that is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the text.
Although warm herbal drinks made from peppermint and chamomile are commonly called teas, they’re more accurately and correctly known as tisanes.
Correctly and accurately are redundant. And correctly can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence, so it should be taken out.
Although warm herbal drinks made from peppermint and chamomile are commonly called teas, they’re more accurately and correctly known as tisanes.
🎯 Select the word or phrase that is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the text.
Though the explorer Ferdinand Magellan is famous for circumnavigating around the globe, he actually died before finishing his expedition. Navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano took over after Magellan’s death and completed the voyage.
Around and circumnavigating are redundant. Around can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence, so it should be taken out.
Though the explorer Ferdinand Magellan is famous for circumnavigating around the globe, he actually died before finishing his expedition. Navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano took over after Magellan’s death and completed the voyage.
🎯 Select the word or phrase that is redundant and can be removed without changing the meaning of the text.
According to medical historian Alun Withey, Victorian-era doctors encouraged men to grow beards on their faces as protection against illness.
On their faces and beards are redundant. On their faces can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence, so it should be taken out.
According to medical historian Alun Withey, Victorian-era doctors encouraged men to grow beards on their faces as protection against illness.
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