The title of today's lesson is it is often redundant ...Remember redundant means repeating.

It is often redundant to repeat the word color with a color.

So for example, you wouldn't say that is a red color shirt.

You would just say that is a red shirt.

Or the shirt is red or something like that.

But we would not usually repeat the word color with a color.

We don't do that often .It is kind of awkward.

It is basically considered incorrect.

Even though a Westerner would probably understand any students of ESL. Remember ESL English as

a second language.

They would probably understand any foreigner that said it.

But it is not really proper.

It sounds awkward.

Okay . Let's take a look at the note here.

It is most common and natural to just say the color by itself.

We may sometimes use the adjective colored. Okay.

But the use is not common .It is mostly used when the color is odd.

You know it is kind of strange not the most common color or difficult to describe.

So let's take a look at a couple of examples here.

Like is someone asked the question What color is the shirt ? And someone answered it is

a pink -colored shirt.

That is wrong .It is awkward.

I mean color would actually be like a noun here.

So this would not be proper.

It is a pink-colored shirt.

It is al little better because then pink=colored becomes an adjective.

But it is still a little weird . It is just more natural to say it is pink or it is a

pink shirt, especially since pink is a pretty common , like blue, green, yellow.

These are all very, very common colors.

So we are less likely to use the word colored with it.

Okay.

Let's see a few other ways that are acceptable.

You can see it is a light pink.

It is a dark pink.

It is a shade of pink.

Or it is a dark shade of pink.

Or it is a light shade of pink.

A lot of things you could use.

But we would probably not use it this way.

This is the way some students make a mistake.

So they probably wouldn't say it is a pink color shirt or a pink colored shirt.

All right.

. Let's look at some examples where maybe colored is more likely to be used with color.

It is maroon colored.

It is difficult to describe.

It is kind of a dark maroon.

Maroon is the most common type of color.

The maroon is kind of like a brownish purple color basically.

A darker purple.

So that is more likely to be used with colored..

And especially when were saying that you know, it is hard to say exactly like the shade

of it.

How dark it is, how light it is.

So we are more likely to use it in that sort of sense.

What color is it ? It is maroon-colored.

It is one of those shades of maroon.

It is difficult to describe, it is kind of like a dark maroon.

So that is the way somebody would use it, especially when they are expressing that they

are not 100% certain.

That is the closest they they can guess of what the color might be.

Or here . we might say what color are those pants ? And again someone might answer this

way.

it is hard to say.

They are sort of a lavender-colored.

You know.

so again , you don't know exactly.

And again Lavender , That is not one of the more common colors.

So you would probably not be more likely to use it with a blue or green or yellow which

are very, very common colors.

Anyway, I hope it is clear.

I hope you got it.

Thank you for your time.

Bye-bye.