Unnecessary words in passive forms

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you

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marks in a in an exam another example it

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is thought by people

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that it is thought by people so by

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people here is unnecessary it is thought

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we we're using the passive form here in

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order to not specifically reference the

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people the the agents who are doing the

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thinking so it kind of ruins that whole

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passive voice sentence by including by

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people and one more example and this

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perhaps could be from a a report or a

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proposal it is recommended that the

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survey is repeated again so the torgy

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here is repeated again right if

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something is repeated then it contained

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that idea of being again now it is

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possible to repeat something again if

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it's already been repeated once and then

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you repeat it again but in this context

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really suggesting that the survey was

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done once and it needs to be repeated

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once not again so of course it always

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depends on the context so all of those

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examples are typical in the essays or

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any other writing tasks in the Cambridge

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English exams but I'm going to share

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some more examples where we see

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tautology in more General situations and

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these are actually quite common but

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again they're technically redundancies

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we don't need to use both words so let's

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have a look at the first example an

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unexpected