Is it possible to use 'such as..' and 'for example,' in a sentence like this:
"Device and method for cleaning containers such as for example agricultural crates"
Can we use 'such as..' and 'for example,' together in a sentence?
Learn English – Can we use ‘such as for example’
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Best Answer
"Such as for example" is saying the same thing twice.
When you are saying, "containers such as bottles, pots and jars", what you are doing is providing examples of containers. So saying "for example" is redundant.
You might hear people saying this, but if you were writing an article for a newspaper, your editor would cross out either "such as" or "for example".
M Palmer said, up there in the comments, "It may sometimes, but not always, suggest that the speaker is having difficulty thinking of an example"—and this is precisely because that this implies that someone says, "such as..... er..... um..... for example"—the speaker simply repeats the same thing in different words.
So one of those is completely unnecessary. It's not a language mistake, it's a stylistical mistake called pleonasm.