Speak Better Grammar

June 11, 2008

Redundancy

Filed under: Grammar — Vander Kitten @ 1:17 pm

I received a letter for my review today at work.  I had to edit it for content as I knew some of what it was talking about.  Because I am addicted to editing the way my husband is to Good and Plenty’s, I also took the liberty to tackle some punctuation errors.  Oh, and I changed some wording for clarity.  (And yet, people at work don’t seem to hate me.)  Anyway, the file name was “Communication Letter.” 

Let me first say that it was not a letter about communication.  It was a piece of communication.  But so is a letter.  So IMHO, “communication letter” is redundant.

I didn’t tell the author of the letter that.  I think I had already pressed my luck by removing her extra commas.

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