Are You Redundant?
The following sentences include some redundant words – the kind that repeat a meaning in different words. Like: I truly honestly mean it! Erase one of them. Now, don’t you feel better?
- The daffodils waved their lemony yellow heads in the breeze.
- What a gloriously gorgeous day for a walk in the park.
- The leisurely stroll made its way slowly along the path.
- Suddenly, with a quick moment, a figure jumped from the bushes.
- “Give me all you got stuffed in your full pockets!”
- “Go stuff your silly stupid dopey dim-witted brainless head in a deep bottomless yawning cavernous hole!”