<p>I would like to know if this is an error</p>
<p>He is intelligent and smart</p>
<p>If the word intelligent and smart is underlined, then is it an error? I am asking this because, i read somewhere, that SAT will not say some one as both intelligent and smart because both do mean the same.</p>
<p>I would like to know, if I am only tested grammatically in the sentence errors? Or even the redundancy?</p>
<p>Kindly, reply me.</p>
<p>The SAT occasionally has grammar questions where the error is one of redundancy.</p>
<p>Actually I don’t think redundancy is really tested in the real SAT because I’ve never encountered this kind of question in the BB but rather in other books such as Kaplan, Barron’s, etc.
Please correct me if I’m wrong (Quote a question from the BB)</p>
<p>Redundancy is indeed tested on SAT.
Can’t think about a specific question, but if you have any QAS of 2007 SAT Test, you should see one or two questions.</p>
<p>I vaguely recall one question being frequently tested on SAT is " more clever ", or something like this.</p>
<p>I don’t remember exactly what I saw, but in the blue book there was something like “more stronger.”</p>
<p>I think it is in the improving sentences, but not in the error identification. Am i right?</p>
<p>If you define a mistake like “more clearer” as a redundancy. Then yes, these questions appear frequently on the SAT.
Actually, “more clearer” isn’t grammatically correct but “intelligent and smart” is.
Although it might sound awkward, it could at best just be called a pleonasm like the common expressions “invited guests”, “a tiny little child”.
Pleonasm might be considered intricate and long-winded but they remain frequently used by poets for instance.
Anyway, I’m now definitely persuaded that redundancy isn’t tested in the SAT.</p>