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Sentence Correction 23 / 50

Choose the option that best corrects the grammatical or logical error in the underlined fragment.

The consultant's presentation, meant to clarify the strategy, was instead both abundantly verbose and a superfluous repetition of insights already previously articulated.

A. (No change)
B. abundantly verbose and superfluously repeated insights already previously articulated
C. verbose and repetitive of insights already articulated
D. verbose and a superfluous reiteration of insights previously articulated

1. Identification of Error: Redundancy and Parallelism.
2. Grammatical Rule: The "both...and..." construction requires the elements joined to be grammatically parallel. Additionally, wordiness and redundancy (e.g., using "abundantly" with "verbose," "superfluous" with "repetition," or "already" with "previously") should be avoided for clarity and conciseness.
3. Option Elimination:
A. Incorrect — Contains multiple redundancies ("abundantly verbose," "superfluous repetition," "already previously articulated") and a parallelism error ("abundantly verbose" (adjective phrase) vs. "a superfluous repetition..." (noun phrase)).
B. Incorrect — Still contains redundancies ("abundantly verbose," "superfluously repeated," "already previously articulated") and a weak parallel structure.
C. Correct — Corrects redundancy by using "verbose" (removing "abundantly") and "repetitive" (removing "superfluous repetition" and condensing "already previously articulated" to "already articulated"). It also establishes correct parallelism with two adjectives ("verbose" and "repetitive") describing the presentation.
D. Incorrect — Fails to correct the parallelism error ("verbose" (adjective) vs. "a superfluous reiteration" (noun phrase)) and maintains redundancy ("superfluous reiteration").

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