[Video] Q1: A) no change or b) gently blowing and swaying from the branches of the trees. or c) swaying gently from the tree branches. or d) or pieces of paper that sway gently from the tree branches.

Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the 2021 May Sat (International)

Hey guys. So question one is going to be redundancy question, 2 and that means what we need to do is cut out any excess unnecessary 3 information. So the sentence reads strolling down a stone path, 4 surrounded by Japanese Dogwood trees, 5 visitors to the Smithsonian institutions here, 6 Sean museum and sculpture garden might notice hundreds of paper tags blank. 7 Now our first option says gently swinging from the Japanese dog wood trees branches. 8 Now, what is the issue with redundancy here? 9 Well, it's the fact that we're repeating that these are Japanese Dogwood trees, 10 branches. We already said previously in the sentence that while strolling down this path, 11 you're going to just run my Japanese dog with trees. 12 So I don't need to say that they are Japanese dog with trees a 13 second time, so we can cross out the no change option. 14 Option B says gently blowing and swaying from the branches of the trees. 15 Now, the problem with this is that we're repeating ourselves again. 16 It says gently blowing in swaying from the branches. 17 Now these things are just kind of redundant. 18 It's saying gently blowing and swaying, 19 but that's the same thing. So we don't need to be repeating ourselves here, 20 making this the wrong answer. And it seems like a small thing. 21 That's really why these answer choices are wrong. 22 Option C says swaying gently from the tree branches. 23 Now this is good. It doesn't say gently swaying and blowing just as gently 24 swaying. And it j...