Which unnecessary words could you delete without changing the meaning of this sentence?

One theme of the poem “Kindness” is that when we feel or experience sorrow, we discover our connection to others and learn to appreciate kindness.

Read this sentence from a student’s analysis of “The Prison Cell.”

The speaker in this poem angers a guard by telling him that the walls of the prison, which is a jail cell, can disappear.

Which words in this sentence are redundant?

Which edits could you make to avoid redundancy without changing the meaning of this sentence?

Words have the ability to empower and can empower people to transform their worlds in positive ways, but they also have the power to injure people, so we must always use our words with care.

Read the sentence from “The Colorful World of Synesthesia.”

A group of scientists in the Netherlands found direct evidence of these types of extra connections. 

    Which is a noun phrase in the excerpt?

b.     

c.     

d.     of these types