Jack made a water pail with his own hands for Jill.
Jack made a water pail for Jill.
Tautologies express the same thing twice with different words. In our example, the word “made” implies that Jack used his own two hands to create the pail. The prepositional phrase “with his own hands” creates a redundancy. Once you know what they are, it’s fun to discover tautologies: dilapidated ruins, close proximity, added bonus, large crowd . . . The list goes on and on!
from Grammarly Blog
http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/how-to-avoid-tautologies/
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