Identify the stylistic and grammatical flaw in the sentence: 'The CEO entered into the room and sat down on the chair at 9:00 AM in the morning.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. tautological redundancy
- Step 1: The phrase '9:00 AM in the morning' contains redundant repetition, as 'AM' already denotes the morning. Similarly, 'entered into' is redundant when entering a physical space; this unnecessary wordiness is tautological redundancy (pleonasm). Answer: tautological redundancy. Why not the others: "dangling participial modifier" involves a modifying phrase lacking a logical subject agent to modify; "faulty comparative structure" compares two non-equivalent entities or omits terms in a comparison; "ambiguous pronoun reference" leaves the antecedent of a pronoun unclear among multiple possible nouns.
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