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Too many “and”s? Is it grammatically correct?
A friend of mine (a non-native speaker of English) has asked me to check her CV and I'm afraid / ashamed to say, I'm having trouble.
Are there too many "and"s in the given sentence? It seems OK to ...
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Can you use two “and”s in a sentence?
For example,
I like chocolate, vanilla, and lemon and orange ice cream.
Indicating "lemon and orange" is a combined flavor, as an item in the list needing an initial and.
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How can you use “either… or” twice in a sentence?
I want to be able to say something like:
There either needs to be X to do either Xa or Xb or there needs to be Y.
(edit: since from some answers it doesn't seen to be clear, I mean that that Xa ...
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Grammaticality of “that that” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you handle “that that”? The double “that” problem
“I don't think that that can be done”
Better use of “that that” — or not
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Better use of “that that” — or not [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you handle “that that”? The double “that” problem
I sometimes seem to write myself into using 2 thats in succession, as in:
"Now that ...
