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Joe is repeating the same mistake? Is it correct to say that “Joe is repeating the mistake.” Because “repeating the same mistake” has a redundancy error ? I had asked this question to egmat support and they refrained from answering saying that this is not an official question.

Well I have a genuine doubt and if I get it clarified this will help me in my exam. I have enrolled in the egmat GLP course and they offered assistance for every concepts of gmat but when I posed this question they claimed that this is not an official question. So I believe that post making a mistake on this kind of questions thats when they will come to rescue?

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Abhi077 · Answer

Hi, as far as your doubt is concerned, "repeating the same mistake" does not have a redundancy error as 'same' in the sentence modifies the noun 'mistake', it functions as a modifier or rather an adjective. joe is performing the action of 'repeating ' what mistake? The 'same' mistake he did earlier. I hope its clear. If not, you can use the 'request expert reply' option and wait for an expert to comment.

daagh · Answer

Dear aep,

Can you confirm whether you are referring to repeating the mistake or to repeating the same mistake?

Simply saying 'repeat the mistake' may not be redundant. But when you repeat the same mistake, yes, this is definitely bordering on redundancy. The test of redundancy is to try to drop the suspect word, and see whether the meaning is intact. If there is no loss of meaning after the removal, then there is redundancy.

In the context, by removing the phrase 'the same', there is no distortion io intent. Therefore 'the same' is certainly 
redundant.

HTH

aepmk · Answer

My question does “repeating the same mistake” has a redundancy error? This sentence “ repeating the mistake “ corrects it ?

But from the above Explaination doesn’t “same” act as an adjective to mistake ?

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daagh · Answer

Redundancy is about meaning. We cannot claim that the redundancy cannot include adjectives. Look a the following examples--- thunderous and deafening noise, wordy and verbose prose, -- All these are adjectives and redundant. It is sufficient to use just one of those adjectives.

aepmk · Answer

Yeah so “repeating the same mistake” has a redundancy error because one will always repeat - the same thing - done before . So we don’t need to explicitly say that “repeating the same mistake” . Please let me know if my understanding is correct ?

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aepmk · Answer

Doesn’t it have a redundancy error ? Because one can repeat - the same thing - done before . So doesn’t “repeating the same mistake” has a redundancy error ? 
The kind of error is repeated so if we want to modify it we could specify it’s kind rather than using the word same . Repeating the quant mistake - the word quant is modifying the word mistake .

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aepmk · Answer

Egmat folks reached out to me saying that they cannot discuss non egmat or non official questions because of copyright issues. I totally understand and agree with them. Their course material is very good and I personally feel improvement in my approach in solving questions. This includes both verbal and quant

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