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by Uva@90 » Sat May 24, 2014 3:16 am
Hi All,
MGMAT SC guide stated that below sentence is wrong because of redundancy. Could you please explain me how ?

"A tornado CAN POTENTIALLY BE overwhelming"

I could not understand what is redundant here.

Thanks in advance.
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by GMATGuruNY » Sat May 24, 2014 5:27 am
Uva@90 wrote:Hi All,
MGMAT SC guide stated that below sentence is wrong because of redundancy. Could you please explain me how ?

"A tornado CAN POTENTIALLY BE overwhelming"

I could not understand what is redundant here.

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Uva.
A tornado CAN BE overwhelming.
A tornado is POTENTIALLY overwhelming.
Both convey the same basic meaning: that it is POSSIBLE for a tornado to be overwhelming.
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