SAT
Gerunds
Wordiness
Redundancy
100
What are Gerunds?
Gerunds are verbs that function as nouns and end in "ing"
100
What is wordiness?
It is using too many words unnecessarily.
200
Which word should be eliminated?
It was 12 midnight when the rain finally stopped.
12
300
Which word(s) should be eliminated?
He was happy and joyful for the gift.
and joyful
400
Which word(s) should be eliminated?
June wrote a biography of her life.
of her life
500
(E)- The pronoun “it” refers to celadon porcelain. There is no grammatical error in choice E and that version is more concise than the original.
500
Which word(s) should be eliminated?
A total of six students joined the club.
A total of