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Yet is a conjunction meaning nevertheless or however. While still may appear in conjunctive phrases like but still, it is not itself a conjunction. Therefore:
It's a small car, yet it's surprisingly spacious.
The weather was cold and wet, yet we had a great time.
You can use either word in conjunctive phrases. Yet usually carries a sense of ...
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I would change the sentence to read thus:
After the report has been submitted, desired or needed changes may be made only to font size, margins, and line spacing.
I don't think an average reader would wonder whether this sentence meant all three must be if any one is changed, or only one of the three may changed. If the latter were the case, surely ...
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No, your second sentence is grammatically incorrect because of the ellipsis. The entire sentence is:
There should be an X chromosome and there should be a Y chromosome.
To combine them with the coordinating conjunction and, all you need to do is delete the second instance of there should be:
There should be an X and a Y chromosome.
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The first and the last sentence are correct. The middle sentence is not correct.
The reason is this sentence, which is the original one:
There should be an X chromosome and a Y chromosome.
Notice that this is not
*There should be an X chromosomes and a Y chromosomes.
Neither chromosome should be plural.
That's what is meant.
Now the rule of ...
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Does this sentence imply that changes..made?
No.
Does this sentence mean that changes..made?
Maybe.
The person who wrote the sentence obviously did not want to tie the three types of changes together and that is what the reader will understand if he doesn't take the semantics too seriously. But the sentence is ambiguous, no doubt.
So what can we do ...
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It is perfectly fine to use multiple conjunctions in a sentence, and although it may produce something which seems a bit verbose, there are appropriate uses for it, and in literature in particular, it's commonly used to create a sense of continuity throughout a scene by forcing the reader to take in the entire paragraph without stopping, and Ernest Hemingway ...
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"That" functions as a subordinating conjunction in the sentence:
Who are you?
is the main clause.
You are afraid of man who dies....
is the subordinate clause.
"That" doesn't function as a relative pronoun in this sentence but as a subordinating conjunction. It doesn't matter what part of speech it is but what it does in the sentence.
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