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Difficulty: EasyEliminating Redundancy

Before the invention of modern refrigeration, food preservation relied heavily on salting and curing techniques. Each year, people repeated these practices annually during the autumn months to prepare for winter.

Which choice is the best version of the underlined portion of the sentence?

  1. A
    Each year, people repeated these practices annually
  2. People repeated these practicesAnswer
  3. C
    People repeated these practices, they did so
  4. D
    While people repeated these practices annually,

Answer

People repeated these practices
The correct answer successfully removes the redundant words 'Each year' and 'annually', conveying the idea of repetition clearly and concisely without grammar errors.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the redundant elements in the underlined portion of the passage.
The original phrasing contains both 'Each year' and 'annually', which repeat the same idea of yearly repetition.
Good writing avoids using synonyms that repeat information within the same clause.
2
Evaluate the choices to select the one that resolves the redundancy without introducing new grammatical errors.
The phrase 'People repeated these practices' is concise and grammatically sound. The other options either maintain the redundancy, introduce a comma splice, or create a sentence fragment.
The correct answer must be both grammatically correct and concise.

Key Concept

Eliminating Redundancy
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