More Concise Please encourage your drafting officers to keep sentences and paragraphs in letters, reports, and studies short. Dr. Lomas, the administrator, has mentioned that reports and memos drafted for her approval recently have been wordy and thus time-consuming. The supply manager considered the correcting typewriter a luxury. Our branch office currently employs five tellers, who do an excellent job Monday through Thursday but cannot keep up with Friday and Saturday rush periods. Many pairs of words imply each other.
Finish implies complete , so the phrase completely finish is redundant in most cases.
A related expression that's not redundant as much as it is illogical is very unique . Before the travel agent was completely able to finish explaining the various differences among all of the many very unique vacation packages his travel agency was offering, the customer changed her future plans. Redundant Categories Specific words imply their general categories, so we usually don't have to state both. We know that a period is a segment of time, that pink is a color, that shiny is an appearance. The microscope revealed a group of organisms that were round in shape and peculiar in nature.