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“Only for A, B, and C”: Includes cases where not all are present? [closed]
After submitting the report, changes can be made only for the font
size, margins, and line spacing.
Does this sentence imply that changes can be made only if all three types of changes are ...
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Use of “because of”
In high school, the teacher told me that because is used to answer “why” question, as below:
Why you are you using my shoes?
I am using your shoes because I like them.
However, the use ...
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The range of attributive
I have a clause from DirectX SDK as below:
The position, velocity, and orientation of sound sources and listeners
in 3D space are represented by Cartesian coordinates
what's the range of world ...
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Does the word “since” ever have a meaning of “thus”, “hereby” ones?
Here is a sentence from "Programming Perl":
They [constructors mentioned above in the book — OP's note] don’t really care whether they were invoked from tie, nor do any of the other methods in the ...
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1answer
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What is the relationship between two factual phrases connected by “and”? [closed]
What is the relationship between two factual phrases connected by and? For example,
I own many books and I love to read.
Can the second phrase support or explain the first phrase? It is the ...
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Usage of “since” in “Since the last release, we have integrated feature X”
Does the following sentence imply that X is included in the last release or not?
Since the last release, we have integrated feature X.
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“Yet” to imply negative?
Yet few colleges and universities have taken sufficient account...
Does the sentence above imply a negative/opposite meaning? e.g:
Few colleges and universities haven't taken sufficient ...
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1answer
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Please provide me correct interpretation of this sentence [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does negation affect the use and understanding of “or” and “and”
A's girlfriend doesn't like movies or Roses.
What would be the correct ...
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Meaning of “as” in following sentence [closed]
I am not sure of the meaning of this sentence:
The significance of culture and identity in development has to do not so much with the cultural factor in the process of development as with ...
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How should I understand this “that” clause?
The following sentence is from an article of Harry Frankfurt who is a professor from Princeton University:
It must be part of the point of saying that humbug is "short of lying," that while it has ...
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4answers
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Parse tree of “the ports of Santo Domingo and Cartagena in present-day Colombia”
There is a Wikipedia article with the following line:
Drake sailed to the New World and sacked the ports of Santo Domingo and Cartagena in present-day Colombia.
Never mind the facts as we might ...
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Usage of “for” in this passage
Non-native speaker here. Be kind :)
From TLOTR Book 1, Chapter 7, "In the house of Tom Bombadil"
'Let us shut out the night!' she said. `For you are still afraid,
perhaps, of mist and ...
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What’s the role of ‘because’ in this conversation?
I’ve lost track of the logical flow of the following conversation between Lucius Malfoy and Harry.
And still, behind his back, Dobby was pointing, first to the diary, then to Lucius Malfoy, then ...
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2answers
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What does “if and when” mean, and is it the same as “when and if”?
Rather than trying to describe my beef with this idiom, I will give a bunch of successively objectionable examples. None of these are taken from real life.
As I see it, if (and when) both "if" and ...
2
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4answers
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Is there any difference in meaning between these sentences?
A: Positive and negative numbers cannot satisfy the condition.
B: Positive or negative numbers cannot satisfy the condition.
C: Non-zero numbers cannot satisfy the condition.
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2answers
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How does negation affect the use and understanding of “or” and “and”
I'm trying to make more sense of how negation effects how a sentence is parsed and understood if and's and or's are used within them.
Pop quiz: You are trapped on a bus with a bomb going 50 MPH. You ...
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Confusion with Use of “Though” [closed]
Today I came across this sentence:
Though I don't sell photos taken by me it still makes me feel good/appreciated/wanted
I want to know exactly what this sentence means. I assumed two possible ...
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1answer
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Problem with the usage of “but” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Specific usage of the word 'but'
Interpreting the meaning of 'but' as an implication for exclusion/inclusion
“nothing but” vs. “anything but” vs. “everything but”
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“All but” idiom has two meanings?
Here's two ways I've seen the "all, but" idiom used:
"Close all tabs but this one" (Any modern application with a number of tabs might have this as an option.) It means "close all the tabs, but not ...
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“to be all but X”
What does "all but" mean in this expression?
Today, under pressure from P2P distribution, optical disc piracy in wealthy countries is "all but eliminated" and profit margins elsewhere are slim.
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3
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3answers
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Specific usage of the word 'but'
The Aesop's Fables translated by George Fyler Townsend book has a line which reads as follows:
... If you had but touched me, my friend, you ...
I've seen the word 'but' used this way a couple ...
