Ungrammatical sentences

The more the merrier?








The following sentences are taken from recent print media advertisements:-

1. Take home a complimentary bonsai when you sign up for any 3 of the products below with a minimum of RM200,000.00 and more.
2. At the university, we prepare you to swim with the sharks without being eaten alive.
3. The home loan that lets you rearrange your priorities anytime.

Do you notice that those words highlighted in bold in the sentences are causing troubles?

What are the troubles? They are 1. tautology (needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words) 2. implicitly they don’t prepare you to swim with the sharks without being scared to death and eaten and 3. that makes the sentence incomplete.

Leave out those words and read the sentences again to see if the sentences will become better in sense and in grammar.