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For questions about whether the same word appearing two or more times in a sentence is appropriate, or about whether a word or phrase is repeating information unnecessarily.
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Repeating "them" in "support them rather than abandon them"
Yes, it is correct.
From the perspective of grammar, you can use them twice.
As for using only a single them, only the first one can be removed without it becoming ungrammatical:
✘ Support the …
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How to avoid repeating "method A" in this sentence?
The shortest, and least repetitive, way of expressing the idea is to use the pronoun it:
To simplify the idea of method A, the following example shows how to build a new model using it.
This pre …
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When you get emotional and reduplicate your adjectives
The use of repeated adjectives is normally used for things that provide emphasis—those words that intensify something.
This is why indecorous, indecorous isn't something idiomatic, but very, very ind …
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