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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...

Course: Cambridge language skillsSection: Avoiding redundancy in essaysSubtitles: en

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completely

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redundant I think there is unnecessary

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if it's in my opinion it's something I

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think I don't need to explicitly say it

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and if I think something then of course

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it's my opinion right so it's redundant

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to express it you're expressing the same

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idea twice using different words and the

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second example of torgy in that sentence

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is quite obvious right it's where I say

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really interesting and fascinating so

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they are synonyms if something is really

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interesting it's fascinating so I'm just

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repeating the same idea using different

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words now this is particularly relevant

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to the writing paper of the Cambridge

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English exams because apart from the

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fact that your time is limited and you

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you have a certain word length that you

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you should try to stick to so you you

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don't want to include any irrelevant or

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redundant words the examiners are

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looking out for repetition and this type

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of unnecessary use of vocabulary I think

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a lot of students think that the more

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vocabulary they use the more they write

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the the more they can impress the

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examiners but it doesn't work like that

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the examiners are looking for you to

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express your ideas in a concise way so

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just repeating ideas using different

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words is not going to necessarily get

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you more marks now you may be thinking

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that this is not a big problem right

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it's not a common

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