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The following sentence contains redundant words or ​phrases:

Parents are often reluctant to label their children as "special ​needs," especially when the problems the children face are not severe.
True or False?

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Answer:

False

Step-by-step explanation:

Redundancy or wordiness in a sentence occurs when the same idea is repeated by different words. For example using one and only in a sentence causes redundancy, because they have same meaning.

This sentence has no redundant words. although 'special' and 'especially' are similar, they are different parts of speech (special is an adjective, especially is an adverb) and they refer to different things. Therefore the sentence is correct with no redundancy.

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