Extra word

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How to solve: Extra wordChoose every sentence that contains one unnecessary word.

What it tests

Noticing words that break the grammar: a doubled auxiliary, an extra preposition or article, a redundant pronoun.

In the exam: part X, 5 tasks. A task scores only when all your choices are right.

Step by step

Read each sentence slowly, word by word.
Try removing small words (to, at, of, the, it, been) — does the sentence become correct?
Check verb patterns: go on annoying (no at), needs repairing (no being).
Check repeated meaning: at the age of ten (not ten years).
If a sentence is fully correct, do not select it.

Watch out for

Unusual but correct sentences — don't mark them just because they feel strange.
Extra word hidden in a fixed phrase: discuss about ✕, enter into the room ✕.
Double subjects: My brother he lives… ✕.

Example

You will regret it if you go on at annoying people like that.

Contains an extra word: “at” — go on + -ing needs no preposition.

Exercise 1

SELECT ALL CORRECT ANSWERS

Select all sentences that contain an extra word.

1)Liquids take the shape of any container in which they are placed in.2)To determine an object's force, then the mass and the speed of the object must be measured.3)Helium has the most lowest boiling point of all substances.4)That diamonds are a form of carbon has been known since the late eighteenth century.5)The new machine processes 50 percent more than the previous one.