<p>I don’t think your sentence falls under what the SAT would consider redundant. Sure, the sentence may be logically redundant, but the SAT only cares about redundancy in a few major ways. </p>
<p>The SAT may test redundancy through adverbs. E.g. </p>
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<p>One major way in which the SAT tests redundancy is through “the reason is because.” This phrase is always wrong, and it has shown up on SATs multiple times.</p>
<p>I suggest that you read through silverturtle’s grammar guide :):</p>
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