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2. Redundancy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   For example, the English phonemes /p/ and /b/ in the words pin and bin feature different voicing, aspiration, and muscular tension. Any one of these features is sufficient to differentiate /p/ from /b/ in English. [2] Generative grammar uses such redundancy to simplify the form of grammatical description. Any feature that can be predicted on ...

3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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   Redundancy, and "useless" or "nonsensical" words (or phrases, or morphemes), can also be inherited by one language from the influence of another and are not pleonasms in the more critical sense but actual changes in grammatical construction considered to be required for "proper" usage in the language or dialect in question.

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. ... resulting in sentences that omit certain redundant elements.

5. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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   Bilingual tautological expressions – Redundancy in linguistic expression; Figure of speech – Non-literal word or phrase used for effect; Grammar – Structural rules of a language; Hyperbole – Rhetorical device; Lapalissade – An utterly obvious truism or tautology, with comical effect; No true Scotsman – Informal logical fallacy

6. Double negative - Wikipedia

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   In his Essay towards a practical English Grammar of 1711, James Greenwood first recorded the rule: "Two Negatives, or two Adverbs of Denying do in English affirm". [19] Robert Lowth stated in his grammar textbook A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) that "two negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an ...

7. Three-letter rule - Wikipedia

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   In English spelling, the three-letter rule, [n 1] or short-word rule, [2] is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. [3] As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters.

8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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   The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.

9. Verbosity - Wikipedia

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   Overwriting is a simple compound of the English prefix "over-" ("excessive") and "writing", and as the name suggests, means using extra words that add little value. One rhetoric professor described it as "a wordy writing style characterized by excessive detail, needless repetition, overwrought figures of speech, and/or convoluted sentence ...