Jay Gatsby's nearest neighbor in The Great Gatsby was D. <span>Nick Carraway. Nick is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan and also the narrator of the story.</span>
The correct answer is C. eliminate redundancies.
A wordy sentence contains a lot of words and is very long. If you want to shorten that sentence, you will have to read it carefully and look for words that are repeated, or have similar/same meanings, or are just unnecessary because they don't contribute to the sentence. When you eliminate those redundancies, you will fix your lengthy sentences.
Here are a few it’s not a lot.... but if you ask your English teacher she should be able to help ....