What Are Redundancies?
These nuisances are superfluous words or phrases also known as pleonasms. Rather than augment writing, they slow action scenes and increase word count — without adding constructive details.
About The Quiz
This quiz, the twenty-first in its series, offers ten sentences containing redundancies, and ten suggested solutions.
They are edited examples from books, news media, television shows, and overheard conversations.
What Are Redundancies?
These nuisances are superfluous words or phrases also known as pleonasms. Rather than augment writing, they slow action scenes and increase word count — without adding constructive details.
About The Quiz
This quiz, the twentieth in its series, offers ten sentences containing redundancies, and ten suggested solutions.
They are edited examples from books, news media, television shows, and overheard conversations.
The Really + Adjective Plague
Really, like words such as very, quite, absolutely, extremely, too, and dozens more, is an adverb of degree.
Adverbs have earned a shady reputation, and really is an adverb to avoid. Not to eliminate.
If your work in progress is plagued by really + adjective phrasing, you’ve come to the right place.
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What Are Redundancies?
These nuisances are superfluous words or phrases also known as pleonasms. Rather than augment writing, they slow action scenes and increase word count — without adding constructive details.
About The Quiz
This quiz, the nineteenth in its series, offers ten sentences containing redundancies, and ten suggested solutions.
They are edited examples from books, news media, television shows, and overheard conversations.