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Osee Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

As is

I always feel confused by this phrase. Can anyone teach me how to understand it by examples? Thanks a lot.
  

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" It's used specifically to mean that there are no guarantees about the condition. You may buy something from a store that was used as the floor model - it's not exactly used, but it's not new either. " if there's a scratch or a dent, that's how it comes.

— BarbaraPA

  • " It's used specifically to mean that there are no guarantees about the condition.
  • You may buy something from a store that was used as the floor model - it's not exactly used, but it's not new either.
  • " if there's a scratch or a dent, that's how it comes.
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"As-is" means "in the condition it's in now." It's used specifically to mean that there are no guarantees about the condition.

You may buy something from a store that was used as the floor model - it's not exactly used, but it's not new either. You'll pay a lot less than you would for the same item new from the box, but you're buying it "as-is." if there's a scratch or a dent, that's how
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As GG notes, the hyphenated version is typical as a technical "psuedo legal" term in retail sales.

The un-hyphenated version means about the same thing.
"IMHO, you sentence is fine as is. No need to change a thing!"
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IMHO, what's it stand for? Thanks.
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OMG, I thought everybody Knew that! I learned it on this site! (In My Humble Opinion) Emotion: geeked

Sorry, I just noticed the error
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Thank you--I was struggling with this as well. I used in the sentence, "Unless I am mistaken, I think that that sentence is fine as is." I really wanted to get it right since I was talking about grammar.

Also, I thought "IMHO" meant "in my honest opinion."

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