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Repeated words in a sentence you have written!!!

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saunved
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There are a few sentences which make perfect sense, but you know that you have repeated a few words again and again in them, and these words give a sensible meaning to the already sensible sentence you have written keeping your senses in perfect sense!

Like these two and the one above!:
1.It was better if the armies of the respective parts went to the respective parts to protect their respective parts with respect!
2. The lights blinked lightly as he lightly walked on the light floor.

saunved
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Do you have any such sentences in your novel?

retromaisie
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No. When I find I want to use a word like lightly too many times, then I rewrite it with a more accurate word. If going for more adverbs I might use softly, delicately, faintly, subtly.

If I really fail at coming up with a word I might look it up on the thesaurus, but I prefer to do that only if I'm completely drawing a blank and spending too much time staring at my computer.

Spam286
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I have a total aversion to this kind of thing. If I find myself repeating a word in a sentence that isn't something like 'to' or 'her' then I immediately search for a different one or find a way to rewrite it to avoid the problem. I dunno what the general feeling about this is, but repeating words in quick succession makes me feel icky.

Unrelated observation: I absolutely cannot believe that the Chrome spell-checker is okay with a word like 'icky' but not 'sigil' or 'teleport'. C'mon! They've been acceptable words to use since, like, forever!

Christina Huling
50666 words so far Winner!

Related observation to your unrelated observation: I can't believe that word recognizes "speakerphone" but not "slimeball."

Katsuro
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I didn't use it, but have you heard about the sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?" Keep in mind that "buffalo" can be a noun, the name of a place, and a verb meaning "to bully."

Notkieran
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No. This problem tends to arise with adjectives and adverbs, and it's (fairly) easy to avoid them when you (really) need to, since they, like all modifiers, do not (really) change the sentence by (very) much, and one can (often) get a better impact by using a more precise word as opposed to a generic word that you try to pour the nitro on.

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