Instructions: In the following sentences, one word or phrase is used wrongly. Choose the word that must be changed, modified, or deleted to make the sentence correct. There are sentences without any errors too.

The Principal inquired with the students if they would like their teacher to repeat the lesson again.

Question

Identify the part of the sentence that contains an error:
He did not knew that the train had already left.

Answer 1

Just like “discuss about” in an earlier question, this is another case of a verb that already contains a certain meaning, paired unnecessarily with a word that repeats that same meaning.

“Repeat” means “to do or say again”, so the word “again” after it restates something already built into the verb.
The sentence reads correctly and completely without it: “...would like their teacher to repeat the lesson.”
The other flagged phrases, “inquired with” and “to repeat”, are grammatically fine as used here.

So the correct answer is option C, “again” is the redundant word that should be deleted.

Answer 2

Just like “discuss about” in an earlier question, this is another case of a verb that already contains a certain meaning, paired unnecessarily with a word that repeats that same meaning.

“Repeat” means “to do or say again”, so the word “again” after it restates something already built into the verb.
The sentence reads correctly and completely without it: “...would like their teacher to repeat the lesson.”
The other flagged phrases, “inquired with” and “to repeat”, are grammatically fine as used here.

So the correct answer is option C, “again” is the redundant word that should be deleted.

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The Correct Option is C

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