Grammar - Redundancy

Compiled from Grammar Builder Book 4

The rules are:

1. A word or phrase is redundant (unnecessary) and should be removed from a sentence when its meaning is part of another word or phrase in the sentence.

• We dashed out of the burning building. (NOT dashed quickly….)
• The little boy screamed in pain. (NOT screamed loudly)

2. When there are two words or phrases of similar meaning in a sentence, one of them can be removed as it is redundant.
• Without saying a word, he silently slipped out of the house.                                                                  (WRONG)
• Without saying a word, he slipped out of the house. (CORRECT)   

·         He silently slipped out of the house.                      (CORRECT)

Compiled from Grammar Builder Book 4