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Chopsticks1942 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Are both sentences have same meaning?

She could not get out of her wheel-chair and walk.
She could not get out of her wheel-chair or walk.
  

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*correction: Do both have the same meaning?

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*correction: Do both have the same meaning?
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The first suggests the two actions could not be done one after the other. (Maybe she could get up, and then stand still with support.)

The second says she could do neither action.
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BarbaraPAThe first suggests the two actions could not be done one after the other. (Maybe she could get up, and then stand still with support.)The second says she could do neither action.
This is a question from my grammar book, I was wondering why the answer is and instead of or.
Now I know the difference, and make
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