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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by autobiographies. It's still incredible

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to us that these books write themselves...

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How would you correct the underlined portion below, if at all?

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Jordan wrote and authored an autobiography of his life, even though he was only ten.?

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We're eliminating choice (A) right from the get-go; this first sentence is crammed with

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redundancies.

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If we wrote something, we authored it; if we authored something, we wrote it. Plain

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and simple.

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Choice (C) also uses both "wrote" and "authored," so we'll get rid of that one too.

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The original sentence also modifies the noun "autobiography" with the prepositional phrase

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"of his life."

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This is redundant because every autobiography is the story of someone's life.

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We see the same mistake in choice (D), so we'll eliminate it as well.

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Choice (B) is correct because it eliminates both redundancies from the original sentence

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by concisely stating, "Jordan wrote an autobiography, even though he was only ten."

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But he didn't have

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to cover as many years as most memoirists...

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