0 using more words than are needed to express a meaning, either unintentionally or for emphasis: --
Rhetorically, this becomes the device of litotes; it can be difficult to distinguish litotes from pleonastic double negation, a feature which may be used for ironic effect.
Semerwater is a pleonastic place name.
In this example the pleonastic it fills the subject function, however it does not contribute any meaning to the sentence.
The second sentence, which omits the pleonastic it is marked as ungrammatical although no meaning is lost by the omission.
They are rendered in ways that best fit the immediate context or omitted in translation without a footnote when deemed pleonastic. 8.
Pleonastic uses are not considered referential, and so are not part of coreference.
It is pleonastic to refer to a class action as a class action suit.
Generally the future is assumed, making most constructions of this sort pleonastic.
