Read the sentence. The patient who was not feeling well told the doctor her head hurt and that she was experiencing blurry visio
n with her eyesight. Which answer choice is the best revision of the sentence to avoid repetition? Not feeling well, the patient told the doctor about her problems with her hurting head and blurry vision in her eyesight. The patient told the doctor about the symptoms affecting both her head and eyesight. The patient told the doctor about her blurry vision in her eyesight and her hurting headache problems. The doctor’s patient told the doctor that her head hurt and her eyesight was blurry.
Answer: B) the patient told the doctor about the symptoms affecting both her head and eyesight.
Explanation: In the given sentence, we have some repetition problems, like saying "...her head hurt and that she was experiencing.." is an example of repetition of grammatical structures, and also "blurry vision with her eyesight" is a repetition because if she is experimenting blurry vision, it is obviously in her eyesight, the choice that is the best revision of the sentence to avoid repetition is " the patient told the doctor about the symptoms affecting both her head and eyesight."
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As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights activist, and a Baptist minister, Dr. King had plenty of experience addressing an audience (Oates 123).
