If you’re asked, “Would you like the minestrone soup with that?”, you wouldn’t be wrong to reply, “I’ll have just the minestrone.” Too often we double up words, such as “minestrone soup”, when only one is required. Here is another list in our series on superfluous words to cut from your writing.
Reduce:
located in the garage
the fastest ever
Reduce to one word:
wrinkled in appearance
the field of physics
stall for time
small in scope
have in place
add an additional
ask the question
minestrone soup
any and all
first and only
the here and now
if and only if
new and improved
null and void
one and the same
Substitute with one word:
in the region of around
at some juncture when
that being said however; nevertheless
did not remember forgot
six of one, half a dozen of the other either
in the grand scheme of things overall
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