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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

and / or

1. We live in a world where SNS plays a huge role in our society like Facebook and Twitter.
2. We live in a world where SNS plays a huge role in our society like Facebook or Twitter.

Q) Does #1 read "Facebook and Twitter" is one SNS?
Q2) If I put "or", Does #2 read "Facebook" and "Twitter" are different SNS?
  

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moon7296 Q) Does #1 read "Facebook and Twitter" is one SNS? No. moon7296 Q2) If I put "or", Does #2 read "Facebook" and "Twitter" are different SNS?

— AlpheccaStars

  • moon7296 Q) Does #1 read "Facebook and Twitter" is one SNS?
  • No.
  • moon7296 Q2) If I put "or", Does #2 read "Facebook" and "Twitter" are different SNS?
  • They read the same.
  • But the sentences don't sound grammatical to me.
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moon7296Q) Does #1 read "Facebook and Twitter" is one SNS?
No.
moon7296Q2) If I put "or", Does #2 read "Facebook" and "Twitter" are different SNS?
They read the same.
But the sentences don't sound grammatical to me.
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I think they are grammatical, but they're incorrectly structured.

They seem to imply that Facebook and Twitter, along with SNS, play a huge role in society.

I guess SNS stands for "social networking service".

I'd probably say:

We live in a world where social networking services, such as Facebook and/or Twitter, play an important role in society.
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ozzourtiI think they are grammatical, but they're incorrectly structured.
In your re-write, you corrected the apparent subject-verb agreement problem that was in the original sentence.
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AlpheccaStarsIn your re-write, you corrected the apparent subject-verb agreement problem that was in the original sentence.
Ah, yes. I guess the grammatical number wasn't immediately apparent to me in the acronym. I think it's better to spell it out in full.
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