College of Admission Tests Multan

Ambiguity Wordiness and Redundancy

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Question: 10

Religious texts often appear quite difficult to understand, being contradictions of themselves.
  • being contradicting them.
  • being contradictions of themselves.
  • contradicting themselves.
  • contradicting them.
  • being contradictions of them.

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Correct Answer: C

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The underlined phrase in the sentence is awkwardly worded, which makes the sentence itself difficult to understand. The "religious texts" contain contradictions, a meaning not conveyed properly by the sentence. "Contradicting themselves" is the clearest, most appropriate choice among the answers.