pleonastic in a sentence
Examples
- In a particles that denote direction of motion are so frequent that even when such a particle is pleonastic, it seems natural to include it ( e . g . " enter into " ).
- It is a little pleonastic : an " autantonym " "'is "'by definition homophonic : it is a pair of antonyms which are at the same time homophonic.
- Pe�a has coined the pleonastic phrase �republican republicanism?( or its alternative wording �public republicanism?) to designate his political ideas, according to which the State's job is to pursue the common welfare by organizing the public services.
- Kolsky played upon the tone and syncopations of the pleonastic ( some say prolix, some say downright wordy ) Nobel laureate in composing a contest-winning parody of Faulkner's novel " The Sound and the Fury ."
- A sentence may not need a subject to have valid meaning, but to satisfy the syntactic requirement for an explicit subject a pleonastic ( or dummy ) pronoun is used; only the first sentence in the following pair is acceptable English:
- The 37-year-old played upon the tone and syncopations of the pleonastic ( some say prolix, some say downright wordy ) Nobel laureate in composing a contest-winning parody of " The Sound and the Fury ."
- Pleonastic proforms also lack a linguistic antecedent, e . g . " It is raining ", where the pronoun " it " is semantically empty and cannot be viewed as referring to anything specific in the discourse world.
- The city of Agadir's full name in Tashelhit is " Agadir n Yighir ", literally " the fortress of the cape ", referring to the nearby promontory named Cape Rhir on maps ( a pleonastic name, literally " Cape Cape " ).
- This same pleonastic style remains very common in modern poetry and songwriting ( e . g ., " Anne, with her father / is out in the boat / riding the water / riding the waves / on the sea ", from Peter Gabriel's " Mercy Street " ).
- There are examples of the pleonastic, or dummy, negative in English, such as the construction, heard in the New England region of the United States, in which the phrase " So don't I " is intended to have the same positive meaning as " So do I ."