Question

Revising for Conciseness - Rejecting Redundancies and PurgingEmpty Words

Answer 1

Answer:

Answer (A) - 1 and 2

Answer (B) - 3

Answer (C) - 2

Explanation:

There are three sections to this question.

PART A: Rejecting Redundancies

Among the 4 options given in this section, the redundancies are

1. Adequate enough

2. Combined together

Why? Because there is repetition in the phrases! Adequate is the same thing as Enough and Combined means the same thing as Together.

PART B: Purging Empty Words

For the statement given, the option containing the empty words is

3. "that was unfinished"

Why? Because this is the unnecessary phrase that needs to be eliminated from the sentence, not even for conciseness sake but for the sake of proper grammar and better comprehension by the reader.

PART C: Revising a Passage

For the passage given, the type of revision that could be made to make it more concise is

2. Drop unnecessary fillers

Why? Because the second statement in the passage was an unnecessary filler. It contained information that required story telling about the efforts of "Jump High Schools".