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Navitasan Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

As in

1- "Casualty" means someone who has been injured or killed as in war.
2- "Casualty" means someone who has been injured or killed, as in war.
3- "Casualty" means someone who has been injured or killed, such as in war.

Do these sentences mean:
a-for instance in a war
or:
b-in the same manner as in war?

The difference in meaning is slight.

Gratefully,
Navi.
  

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Whatever difference you were hoping for with the presence or absence of the comma is swamped by the reader's intelligence. The first sentence, without the comma, on close examination seems to mean "in the same manner as in war", but the reader instantly and unconsciously rejects that absurdity and thinks you made the mistake of leaving the comma off. He reads "for instance, as in war" (note the comma).

— Enoon

  • Whatever difference you were hoping for with the presence or absence of the comma is swamped by the reader's intelligence.
  • The first sentence, without the comma, on close examination seems to mean "in the same manner as in war", but the reader instantly and unconsciously rejects that absurdity and thinks you made the mistake of leaving the comma off.
  • He reads "for instance, as in war" (note the comma).
  • The version with "such" is just a clumsy way of putting sentence 2, which is the right one.
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Whatever difference you were hoping for with the presence or absence of the comma is swamped by the reader's intelligence. The first sentence, without the comma, on close examination seems to mean "in the same manner as in war", but the reader instantly and unconsciously rejects that absurdity and thinks you made the mistake of leaving the comma off. He reads "for instance, as in war" (note the co
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