Read the sentence. the national debt has risen quite steadily over the past decade. which revision removes unnecessary qualifiers from the sentence? delete national delete quite delete over delete past

Delete quite

The national debt has risen steadily over the past decade.

delete quite

Explanation:

If you delete quite, the meaning of the sentence does not change.

You cannot say the same about the other answer choices. That makes quite an unnecessary qualifier.  

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