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nawee
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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:06 am Post subject: My day starts at sunrise every morning. |
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Hello,
Is it ok to say "My day starts at sunrise every morning."? Is it redundent to have both "at sunrise" and "morning" in the same sentence?
Thank you,
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dragn
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| Is it ok to say "My day starts at sunrise every morning."? Is it redundent to have both "at sunrise" and "morning" in the same sentence? |
Relax, it's fine. In fact, there's really no better way to say it. (My day starts every morning at sunrise would be the choice of some, however.) Of course, you could just say My day starts at sunrise, and we would assume you mean every day; however, your sentence sounds perfectly natural.
You don't always have to treat redundancy as if it were radioactive. Native speakers say things that a bit redundant all the time, usually for emphasis or fullness of expression. For example:
Every single time I get in line at McDonald's, there's some jerk ordering enough food to feed an army!
Well, isn't the word single rather redundant? Wouldn't it convey the same meaning if I just said Every time...? Sure it would. It just felt good to add that emphasis because I'm a little annoyed.
Hope this helps.
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nawee
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Thank you, Greg.
I know that we can sometimes add words of the same meaning for emphasis. The trick is to know when it sounds natural and when it doesn't. Unfortunately I don't have a native speaker's intuition to fall back on. I'm glad I have someone like you and other members of this forum to help 
Thank you again.
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