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Avoiding redundancy in essays

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Lesson 1

A common essay writing mistake

hello everyone thank you for joining me again and welcome to any new viewers this is to the point English with Ben I'm Ben now in my opinion I think you're going to find this vi...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

In my opinion, I think

redundant I think there is unnecessary if it's in my opinion it's something I think I don't need to explicitly say it and if I think something then of course it's my opinion rig...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Spotting redundant expressions

it's not a common mistake that we see a lot and you know maybe you think that you don't do this in your own writings but I'm going to share some examples of typical mistakes tha...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Unnecessary words in passive forms

marks in a in an exam another example it is thought by people that it is thought by people so by people here is unnecessary it is thought we we're using the passive form here in...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

Unexpected surprises and unintentional mistakes

unexpected surprise so again you can see right a surprise by definition is unexpected so you don't need to specify that it's an unexpected surprise an unintentional mistake mist...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Personal identification number

identification number so it's like saying I've forgotten my personal identification number number now I can't finish this video without pointing out that sometimes we can use to...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Using repetition for emphasis

Father's son but again we use that to emphasize that you know I have a lot of sim similarities to my father I take after my father so usually when you do something that your fat...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

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Full video: DON'T MAKE THIS COMMON ESSAY WRITING MISTAKE! - B2 FIRST, C1 ADVANCED, C2 PROFICIENCY (FCE CAE CPE)

Language: en

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