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Difficulty: HardEliminating Redundancy

Although the restoration team worked diligently to preserve the medieval fresco, they could not halt the natural degradation of the plaster. The damp climate of the cathedral accelerated this decay, which was a process that progressively worsened and deteriorated the artwork over time.

Which choice best completes the sentence without redundancy or grammatical error?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. deteriorating the artworkAnswer
  3. C
    which deteriorated the artwork, it worsened it over time
  4. D
    which deteriorated the artwork. Because of the damp climate

Answer

deteriorating the artwork
The correct option is the most concise choice. It uses a participial phrase to transition cleanly from the main clause, eliminating the redundant synonyms 'worsened' and 'deteriorated' as well as the repetitive temporal references.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the underlined portion for redundancy.
The phrase 'worsened and deteriorated' contains redundant synonyms, and 'progressively' is redundant with 'over time.' Additionally, 'which was a process that' adds unnecessary wordiness.
Standard Educational Assessments require eliminating redundant and wordy expressions to ensure clarity.
2
Evaluate the grammar and conciseness of the other options.
One option introduces a comma splice, and another option creates a fragment while repeating 'damp climate' unnecessarily.
Distractors often combine grammatical errors with redundancy to test overall sentence structure skills.
3
Choose the option that is most concise and grammatically correct.
The option reading 'deteriorating the artwork' uses a concise participial phrase that integrates cleanly into the sentence without redundancy.
Conciseness and grammatical accuracy are the primary criteria for redundancy questions.

Key Concept

Eliminating Redundancy
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