Mame wrote:comprised of - wrong, wrong, wrong!!
Quote:
Main Entry:
com·prise
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere
Date:
15th century
<about>
usage Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear, but until comparatively recent times it was found chiefly in scientific or technical writing rather than belles lettres. Our current evidence shows a slight shift in usage: sense 3 is somewhat more frequent in recent literary use than the earlier senses. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.
forward planning - what other kind of planning is there but forward? redundant!
Other redundancies:
past history
past experience
can't think of any others at the moment but there are plenty!
Languages are full of redundancies, Mame. There's nothing at all about a redundancy that makes a collocation wrong/incorrect.
"can't think of any others at the moment but there are plenty!"
'there', as a existential/dummy subject 'there' is a redundancy that you use all the time. Pronouns are especially redundant in English. Many languages make almost no use of pronouns except when they're absolutely essential to meaning.
