| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness
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| § 10. but … however |
| Too much contrast can ruin a photograph, and it can ruin a sentence as well. The contrastive conjunction but is redundant when used with however. It is hard to justify a sentence such as But the management, however, went on with its plans. Use one or the other, but not both. | 1 |
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