Paging All Youse Grammar Police - HELP! - Page 3

11-30-2009, 01:13 AM	#1
lashbear SwishBuckling Bear Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In Isolation :) Posts: 6,597	Paging All Youse Grammar Police - HELP! Hi all ! Here is a sentence from an Agatha Christie novel [referring to the properties of Curare]: "It is a very swift and rapid poison" What is the grammatical term for using two adjectives with identical meaning in the same sentence? Stoat and I can't think of the term, and it's driving us insane. __________________ *I Heart* my Husband - I can't think of anyone I'd rather be in isolation with.**
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