Saturday, 22 December 2007

Tautology

The second of a writer's seven deadly sins.

Avoid using these terms:

  • actual facts
  • added/extra bonus
  • advance warning
  • arid desert
  • audible click
  • collaborate together
  • consensus of opinion
  • couple together
  • each and every one
  • early beginnings
  • end result
  • final completion
  • forward planning
  • free gift
  • future prospects
  • gather together
  • important essentials
  • I saw it with my own eyes
  • joint/mutual cooperation
  • lonely isolation
  • merge together
  • necessary requisite
  • new invention
  • pair of twins
  • past history
  • personal friend
  • relic of the past
  • safe haven
  • totally complete/finished
  • quite/absolutely/utterly unique
  • unexpected surprise
  • usual habit
  • viable alternative
Taken from Collins Good Grammar

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