Timeline for How to separate two pairs without using and?
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:22 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | And in addition ≠ bare and either. Yes, you see both phrases used this way, usually as a sort of elegant variation on and, but they are not equivalent. Phrases headed by complex prepositions like as well as and (and) in addition (to) can be moved; true conjuncts cannot. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:10 | history | edited | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:10 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:07 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @StoneyB That's not at all true. That's one way it's used, but not the only way. The first sense of the phrase at Merriam-Webster is "and in addition : AND // and brave as well as loyal." | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 12:57 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | As well as is not equivalent to and: it marks a parenthetical, not a conjunct. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 12:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 12:53 | history | answered | Terrarium | CC BY-SA 4.0 |