1. Which word should be deleted? Some historians commonly believe that the two world wars were, in fact, one long war.
A.
A. war
B.
B. Believe
C.
C. Commonly
D.
D. World
2.
When he opened the square box of prison uniforms, Bill discovered they were small in size and pink in color—not what had been previously ordered. One way to accurately rewrite the wordy sentence above is.
A.
A. When he opened the box of prison uniforms, Bill discovered they were small sizes and pink-not what had been ordered.
B.
B. When he opened the square box of prison uniforms, Bill discovered they were all too small and pink colors- not the correct size or color that had been previously ordered.
C.
C. When he opened the square box, Bill discovered small, pink prison uniforms- not what they had previously ordered.
3.
Which statement is TRUE?
A.
A. To add force and improve the tone of your writing, add intensifiers such as very, quite, really, or absolutely.
B.
B. Intensifiers such as very, quite, really, or absolutely are often empty words that add nothing to writing.
C.
C. Intensifiers such as very, quite, really, or absolutely reinforce emotion and should not be deleted as wordiness.
4.
When writing wordiness you are eliminating.
A.
A. Words and phrases
B.
B. Wordy sentences
C.
C. Words and verbs
D.
D. None of the above
5.
This tip use verbs when possible rather than noun forms known as nominalization.
A.
A. Remove meaningless intensifiers
B.
B. Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs
C.
C. Reword unnecessary infinitive phrases
D.
D. Omit words that explain the obvious or provide excessive detail
6.
In this tip the intensifiers such as so, very, many, quite, really, and definitely are unnecessary.
A.
A. Remove meaningless intensifiers
B.
B. Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs
C.
C. Reword unnecessary infinitive phrases
D.
D. Omit words that explain the obvious or provide excessive detail
7.
Which choice is an example of a redundant expression?
A.
A. Past memories
B.
B. Hopes and desires
C.
C. Both a and b
D.
D. None of the above
8.
Why should you avoid wordiness in your written productions?
A.
A. Because your meaning becomes harder to understand and the reader might get frustrated
B.
B. Because you have the opportunity to add more details to your written texts
C.
C. Because when there is a lot of information the reader will have a bigger idea of what I want to say
D.
D. None of the above
9.
Is one of the most common English as a second language mistakes. It happens when a writer, either intentionally or unintentionally uses far too many words or unnecessarily complex or abstract words. The above definition belongs to:
