0 using more words than are needed to express a meaning, either unintentionally or for emphasis:
"Get it for free" is pleonastic - it is only necessary to say "Get it free".
Out of context, the prepositional phrases may look pleonastic.
The pleonastic use of the third person personal pronoun seems to have been common in all periods of English.
Pleonastic redundancy does not make a phrase ungrammatical.
Some people regard such usages as pleonastic, and avoid them or disparage them, but this does not prevent them from being widely employed.
Developing this account in greater detail would carry us too far afield, however, requiring a reexamination of pleonastic strategies and transitivity constraints on passives.
The strategy of rewriting might seem pleonastic, but it serves two functions.
It seems to be a little pleonastic.
