ORIGINAL SENTENCES

redundancy italized

EXPLANATION

Redundancy

can be divided

[periphrasis of 'comprises']

into three categories.

[tautology, we can count]

Firstly there is

[tautology, we can count and of course it exists otherwise we could not count it]

simple repetition.

Secondly there is

[tautology, as above]

periphrasis,

and thirdly

[tautology, we can count]

tautology.

The first of these, simple repetition,

[simple repetition]

is the recurrence or reiteration of words, phrases or even, in some cases, of whole sentences.

[tautology, what else could it be?]

By periphrasis

[simple repetition]

we mean the use of many words to express an idea which could, in fact, be expressed by using fewer words.

[tautology, we do this because that is what the dictionary says periphrasis means]

We can see what exactly this means most clearly if we look at

[tautology]

an example

of periphrasis: the periphrastic

[simple repetition]

phrase

[tautology]

"the people of America"

could be replaced by

[periphrasis of 'for']

the single word

[tautology]

"Americans".

Tautology

[simple repetition]

is the use of words or phrases whose meaning has already been conveyed by other words.

[tautology, we know or if we don't we can look it up in a dictionary]

To give just one

[tautology]

example

of tautology,

[simple repetition]

it might be useful to consider the expression

[tautology]

"parents who have children"

[periphrasis of 'parents with children']

in which the phrase

[tautology]

"who have children"

[simple repetition]

is redundant as its meaning has already been conveyed by the use of the noun "parents".

[tautology]