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Most indoor plants should be watered four or more than four times a month to prevent them from dying.


A. watered four or more than four times a month to prevent them from dying

B. watered at least four times a month to prevent it from dying

C. given water at least four times a month to prevent them from dying

D. watered at least four times monthly to prevent them from dying

E. watered at least four times a month so that it does not die



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Most indoor plants should be watered four or more than four times a month to prevent them from dying.


A. watered four or more than four times a month to prevent them from dying

This answer choice is stylisically flawed. Four or more than four times is redundant. Look for a more concise answer choice.

What helps us identify this question as a redundancy question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    x or more than x



B. watered at least four times a month to prevent it from dying

While this answer choice corrects the original redundancy, it is grammatically incorrect. The singular pronoun it does not agree with the plural noun plants to which it refers

What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    Any pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after the underlined part



C. given water at least four times a month to prevent them from dying

While this answer choice corrects the original redundancy, it is still redundant as a result of the replacing the single word watered with the two-word phrase given water.


D. watered at least four times monthly to prevent them from dying

This answer choice corrects the original redundancy flaw by replacing four or more than four with at least four.


E. watered at least four times a month so that it does not die

While this answer choice corrects the original redundancy, it is grammatically incorrect. The singular pronoun it does not agree with the plural noun plants to which it refers

What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:

    Any pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after the underlined part
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