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Take for an example:

"Sweet Basil and Genovese Basil"

"Take an apple pie and a cinnamon pie"

"A cpu unit and a GPU unit"

is it legal to simplify it to

"Sweet and Genovese Basil"?

"Take an apple and a cinnamon pie"

"A CPU and a GPU unit"

Are there cases where it isn't recommended? When does it impact clarity?

Andrzej Sydor
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user741630
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    'Red and white roses' is inherently ambiguous. And worse, attempting to delete your example further to 'Take an apple and cinnamon pie' changes the meaning. One has to be careful when deleting (though inherent ambiguities are often considered acceptable in English where context and/or pragmatics resolve/s the issue). // It's not good to delete disparate items (We met a football and a fund manager / John lost his wallet and temper.) But too broad a question, really. Articles have been written on deletion. – Edwin Ashworth Sep 15 '20 at 10:28
  • @EdwinAshworth May I have the link? – user741630 Sep 15 '20 at 10:30
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    Unit is redundant on CPU/GPU (Central Processing Unit/Graphical Processing Unit) – marcellothearcane Sep 15 '20 at 10:41
  • John Lawler lists some types of deletion you can search for. He also gives a good explanation of conjunction reduction. – Edwin Ashworth Sep 15 '20 at 13:47

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