Question

Make this sentence less redundant. This is an unexpected surprise!

Answer 1

Answer:

Redundancy is described as the repetition of words for further emphasis. However, it is generally, superfluous, unnecessary and not required. For detecting redundancy, the sentence can be reworded so that the excessive words can be deleted from the sentence.

In the above sentence, This is an unexpected surprise, the surprise is always supposed to be unexpected. The use of the word ‘unexpected’ in redundant and can be removed to rewrite the sentence as:

This is a huge surprise  

OR

You gave me a big surprise