Tips to Avoid Redundancy
What is it?
A phrase is redundant if it repeats itself. Rendundant phrases and clichés take away impact from your writing
What phrases should I watch out for?
A phrase is redundant if it repeats itself. Rendundant phrases and clichés take away impact from your writing
What phrases should I watch out for?
Redundant Phrase- 12 midnight
- A total of 14 birds - Close proximity - Cooperate together - Each and every - At the present time - End result - New innovations - Free gift |
"Lean" Version- Midnight
- 14 birds - Proximity - Cooperate - Each - Now - Innovations - Result - Gift |
What is a cliché?
A cliché is a phrase that has lost emphasis or surprise due to overuse. They take away impact from your writing.
Examples
- Easy as pie
- Shaking like a leaf
- Cool as a cucumber
- Crystal clear
- White as a ghost
- Selling like hotcakes
- Shaking like a leaf
- Cool as a cucumber
- Crystal clear
- White as a ghost
- Selling like hotcakes