Careful attention to your verbal patterns can gain big points in the mind of your reader or listener. Whether you’re speaking or writing, redundant phrases just muddy up your communication, so get rid of them.

Here are five specific redundant phrases to eliminate. 

5 Redundant Phrases to Eliminate

1. Advance preview. The word “preview” is defined as "anything that gives an advance idea or impression of something to come." You don’t need the word "advance" in front of it.
   
   
2. Collaborate together. You can’t collaborate by yourself. When you collaborate, you are working with others, so eliminate the word “together.”
   
   
3. Final outcome. By definition, the outcome of something occurs at the end. Cut the word "final." 
   
   
4. Major breakthrough. The word, “breakthrough” is defined as “something that provides a significant or situation-changing advance. Those already indicate something major, so eliminate that word.  
   
   
5. Totally unique. There are no degrees to the word, “unique.” Something is either unique or it isn't.