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Plague words and phrases #1 (permalink) Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:49 am   Plague words and phrases
 

Can someone help me with this question. I have no idea about this.

Plague words and phrases are words and phrases which are used in writing but their presence are not necessary. They are either too wordy, useless, unhelpful or redundant.

How many plague words and phrases are there in the following paragraph? [A plague phrase such as due to the fact that, is counted as one plague phrase.]

"Basically there are two ways that one approaches internship. One can either regard all the training during the internship as a learning experience regardless of whether or not these are skills one will use in one’s profession or one can accept only the training that practises the skills and theories learned at university as relevant learning experience. Even if very little training is given in professionally-related tasks during the internship, one should be kind of pleased to be given the opportunity to undergo industrial training as it can also provide lots of training in time-management, human management, communication skills plus it helps one to polish up on one’s discipline. Once accepted for internship, many are not sure as to whether they should dress casually or smartly during the training."

Choose one answer.

a. 6

b. 5

c. 4

d. 7
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Plague words and phrases #2 (permalink) Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:45 pm   Plague words and phrases
 

I have already answered you HERE.
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Plague words and phrases #3 (permalink) Sun Nov 13, 2011 18:13 pm   Plague words and phrases
 

Thank you :)
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