Question

Which BEST identifies the grammatical problem with this sentence? The youth group met at 4:00 p.m. to protest against the proposal for an extended school day. A) fragment B) redundancy C) run-on sentence Reactivate D) irregular plurals

Answer 1

Answer: B) redundancy

Explanation: Redundancy is the grammatical error in the sentence. Using the words 'protest' and 'against' is redundant, which means unnecessarily repetitive.

Answer 2

The grammatical problem with the sentence is the following one:

B) redundancy.

The youth group met at 4:00 p.m. to protest against the proposal for an extended school day.

If you protest, you make it clear you oppose to something. Therefore, "against" is redundant. A way to correct the sentence would be by removing "against".