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"Consider the sentence &#34;He closed the door firmly.&#34; It’s by no means a terrible sentence (at least it’s got an active verb going for it), but ask yourself if firmly really has to be there. You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between &#34;He closed the door&#34; and &#34;He slammed the door,&#34; and you’ll get no argument from me . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before &#34;He closed the door firmly?&#34; Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn’t firmly an extra word? Isn’t it redundant?"
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