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Jack112 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

For/And/Or

Original sentence:

1. Clothing which contains advertisements for and/or promotes alcohol, tobacco, and/or drug-related products shall not be worn. (Can someone explain to me on how this sentence works? How do the 'for' and 'and/or' work? Why do we have two 'and/or' ? Why not just one? How do I read the sentence?)

2. Clothing which contains advertisements for promotes alcohol, tobacco, and/or drug-related products shall not be worn. (Example: If I take out the first 'and/or', the sentence is incorrect? So how do I read it? It's so confusing.)

Thanks!!
  

Top answer

The clothing can neither advertise for nor promote any of the following: alcohol, tobacco, or drug-related products. " Does that make sense now?

— BarbaraPA

  • The clothing can neither advertise for nor promote any of the following: alcohol, tobacco, or drug-related products.
  • " Does that make sense now?
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The clothing can neither advertise for nor promote any of the following: alcohol, tobacco, or drug-related products.

The for is part of "contains advertisements for." It parallels "promotes."

Does that make sense now?
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Your second sentence is not correct and, insofar as it is correct at all, doesn't say the same thing as the first.

The first sentence means this:

You cannot wear any of the following types of clothing:

1) that which contains advertisements for alcohol.
2) that which promotes alcohol.
3) that which contains advertisements for alcohol and promotes alcoho
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