Question

Rewrite the following sentences avoiding Redundancy and clichés
1.The movie was an edge of the seat thriller
2. foreign imports during the financial year 2017-18 reduced
considerably.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. the seat thriller of an edage eas in the movie

2. the financial yaer 2107 -18 reduced by the foregin

Answer 2

1. The movie was a thriller.

2. Imports during the financial year 2017-18 reduced considerably.

• Clichés are overused expressions which are often similes or metaphors that have lost their original influence.

• Redundancy is when one uses two or more words together which has mean the same thing.

• In the first sentence, "an edge of the seat" is an example of clichés as it is an overused expression which is a metaphor for describing a thriller.

• In the second sentence, "Foreign" is Redundancy because imports is a good or service which is bought in one country that was produced in foreign. So "foreign imports" and "imports" mean the same.

Hence,

1. The movie was a thriller.

2. Imports during the financial year 2017-18 reduced considerably.

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