Here’s a Pleonasm for You

rogersgeorge on January 16th, 2022

A pleonasm is when you have one or more unnecessary words in a sentence. Here’s an example:

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Obviously you don’t need both “still” and “yet.” But what about “shoot”?

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Here’s a Pleonasm for You

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