Discussion
(a) I konow it for certain.
(b) Repeat again what you have said.
(c) The reason of my silence is illness.
(d) He wrote me a letter.
Answer: B
The key marks Repeat again what you have said. as the incorrect sentence.
Repeat already means 'say again', so 'repeat again' is redundant, the textbook example of tautology. The sentence should be 'Repeat what you have said.'
'He wrote me a letter' is correct, with me as the indirect object. Sentence (a) is correct apart from the misprint 'konow' for 'know' in the booklet. Sentence (c) is the closer call: present-day usage prefers 'the reason for my silence', though 'the reason of' is found in older English, so the paper treats the redundancy of 'repeat again' as the error to find.
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