Redundancy Exercises in PDF

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Welcome to my Redundancy worksheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. Redundancy comes next and it is a writing skill, but it also involves a lot of comprehension. For Redundancy, students are given sentences and they have to figure out which words in the sentence are redundant, and then omit them. They really have to tease out the comprehension also, because, for example, one of the sentences talks about “Sarah and I were friends from way back in first grade, when we were young”. You don't have to say when we were young because you said first grade, so those two components are redundant but which one are you going to omit. And I've taught my students to omit the one that's less specific. So, in that example you would omit “when we were young”, doesn't really tell you when, just kind of young, and first grade is much more specific. So, they really have to tease out the meanings and choose the meaning that gives more information. Thanks for viewing my description of my Redundancy worksheet. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!

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