Avoiding redundancy — Sentence Correction Aptitude Question
Avoiding redundancy: Choose the correct sentence: Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Sentence Correction
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time target: 40 seconds
Question
Choose the correct sentence:
Options
- Please repeat that again.
- Please repeat that.
- Please again repeat that once more.
- Please re-repeat that.
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: B. Please repeat that.
Worked solution
- Repeat means to say again, so 'repeat again' is redundant.
- 'Please repeat that' is correct.
Answer: Please repeat that.
The idea
Watch for built-in meanings: return back, revert back, ascend up, free gift and final conclusion are all redundant in the same way.
Shortcut. The prefix re- already means 'again', so any option adding 'again', 'once more' or a second re- repeats itself. Here the shortest option is the correct one.
Common trap. "Please repeat that again." — a common spoken phrase, so it sounds normal, but repeat already contains the idea of 'again'.