Read the paragraph. Patty and Maureen took the long drive to their high school reunion. The women were excited about the prospec
t of seeing old friends at the ranch. The group had quite a past history to reminisce about. The weekend was sure to be full of stories and laughter! Which sentence should be revised to eliminate redundancy?
The sentence that should be eliminated to get rid of redundancy would be "The group had quite a past history to reminisce about".
Redundancy refers to a weakness in a speech or a piece of writing that presents unnecessary repetition, information that isn't useful or words with the same explicit or implied meaning.
In the sentence I marked, the word "past" is causing a redundancy. When we're being told that there's "history to reminisce about" <u>it's already implied that it's in the past since we can't reminisce about anything else but the past and all history is past.</u>
The interview is like an informal and formal one. A lot is expected to an interview. It doesn't really have to be formal or not because everything is subjective. It is informal compared to an essay. It is formal compared to a speech.
