Redundancy in BB writing question

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<p>Here's the sentence:</p>

<p>Contrary to what many people believe, heat lightning is not lightning caused by heat; it is ordinary lightning that occurs at too great a distance for its accompanying thunder to be audible.</p>

<p>The choices:
A) Contrary to what
B) is not lightning
C) at too great a distance
D) to be audible
E) no error</p>

<p>The correct choice is no error. However, when I first read it, I instantly thought that choice B was correct. I do not see why the phrase "is not lightning" is necessary. It's clearly redundant.</p>

<p>Heat lightning is not lightning caused by heat</p>

<p>can just become</p>

<p>Heat lightning is not caused by heat</p>

<p>What am I missing here? I thought this should have been considered as a redundancy error for SAT writing.</p>

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<p>Redundancy will never be tested in as an ISE question, because grammatically, there is no error. Only on IS questions will you have to worry about redundancy (and rarely).</p>

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<p>The writer goes on to say that it is “ordinary thunder,” as opposed to “lightning caused by heat.”</p>

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<p>thanks</p>

<p>Bigb14, that helps alot. I had no idea they excluded concepts from question types. Are any other concepts excluded from the ISE questions?</p>

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<p>Actually, redundancy has been tested in ISE, IIRC.</p>

<p>Something like “I am also going to the park too”</p>

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<p>Nope, if there is redundancy, it’ll be inherent in some other type of error.</p>

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<p>Just look in the BB pg 101 for all the errors they test</p>

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<p>Redundancy is included there. However…</p>

<p>“Redundancy will never be tested in as an ISE question, because grammatically, there is no error. Only on IS questions will you have to worry about redundancy (and rarely).”</p>

<p>-bigb14</p>

<p>So I guess they don’t test some concepts on the ISE questions.</p>

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<p>The thing is, even if it is tested, the sentence you posted above is not redundant. (I know it’s been said)</p>

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<p>Never say never, I suppose, but I always find it easier to simplify. If redundancy is somehow tested on ISE (I don’t think I’ve seen it yet), it’ll most likely be blatantly obvious. A sentence like “The mall is flooding with a lot of people” will never be wrong, because although inherently redundant, there is no grammatical error. However, on IS questions, an answer could be “…flooding with people,” in which case that answer would be right because it eliminates the redundancy and is more concise.</p>

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<p>actually redundancy is tested on ISE. Look at page 535 number 29 in BB2.</p>

<p>A volunteer organization, the Covington Soup Kitchen (has been feeding) needy families (since) 1977, annually distributing (nearly) a million pounds of food (each year). (No error).</p>

<p>D is wrong because it is redundant…annually is the same as each year. </p>

<p>I should have gotten this question right had bigb14 not convinced me that redundancy is never tested.</p>

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<p>he’s not like always right you know lol. you just proved him wrong.
anyways, it was listed on p101 so it was fair game</p>

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<p>Oh, shut up :stuck_out_tongue: (I actually remember that question now…)</p>

<p>Still, it’s pretty obvious in that case… idk.</p>