The following sentence contains redundant words or phrases:

parents are often reluctant to label their children as "special needs," especially when the problems the children face are not severe.
true or false?

False

Explanation:

Redundancy or wordiness in a sentence occurs when the same idea is repeated by different words. For example using one and only in a sentence causes redundancy, because they have same meaning.

This sentence has no redundant words. although 'special' and 'especially' are similar, they are different parts of speech (special is an adjective, especially is  an adverb) and they refer to different things. Therefore the sentence is correct with no redundancy.

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

u forgot to wipe

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