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* A rose is a rose is a rose.Someone wrote me as above. Is the above construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send?Thanx/NSP

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[nq:1]* A rose is a rose is a rose. Someone wrote me as above. Is the above construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send? Thanx/NSP[/nq]
I'm not sure if this was adapted from the famous Romeo and Juliet quote ( that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet) or not, but it is correct in its grammar. It basically means, it is what it is. There's no way to change something from being what it already is.

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n o s p a m p l e a s e schrieb:
[nq:1]* A rose is a rose is a rose. Someone wrote me as above. Is the above construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send?[/nq]
This is a famous quote by Gertrude Stein. You can read all about its origin and its meaning in wikipedia at
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Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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[nq:1]n o s p a m p l e a s e schrieb:> * A rose is a rose is a rose.[/nq]
[nq:2]Someone wrote me as above. Is the above construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send?[/nq]
[nq:1]This is a famous quote by Gertrude Stein. You can read all about its origin and its meaning in wikipedia at . Regards, Einde O'Callaghan[/nq]
Einde is right. The meaning of the word is more important here. You can find such examples and others at www.vocabularysoftware.net

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[nq:1]* A rose is a rose is a rose. Someone wrote me as above. Is the above construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send? Thanx/NSP[/nq]
Know morw baout words and their uses in the website www.improvingvocabulary.org. This is a good one and I hope you will find the answer there.

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* Dell sucks
I am told use of sucks here is abusive. What is the best word that we can use here.

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[nq:2]* A rose is a rose is a rose. Someone ... construction correct? If so, what meaning does it send? Thanx/NSP[/nq]
[nq:1]Know morw baout words and their uses in the websitewww.improvingvocabulary.org. This is a good one and I hope you will find the answer there.[/nq]
I have something for you. These are the site which offer you various terms for a single word. "Sucks" will also be there. www.ultimatespelling.com
www.increasevocabulary.net

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At I found below line.
* three Greek cities viz Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras

Why is there a comma before and in above line? I am told there is no need of a comma if and is there.

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At http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/display/display.html?unfolded=46931&ids=46931,46932 , I found the following:
* three Greek cities viz Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras

Why is there a comma before and?

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n o s p a m p l e a s e schrieb:
[nq:1]At I found below line. * three Greek cities viz Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras Why is there a comma before and in above line? I am told there is no need of a comma if and is there.[/nq]
In a list it's possible to put a comma before "and" but it isn't necessary.

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

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[nq:1]Athttp://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/display/display.html?unfolded=46931&ids=46... , I found the following: * three Greek cities viz Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras Why is there a comma before and?[/nq]
The comma before "and" is optional. Quite a few non-native speakers of English find this phenomenon confusing and annoying, and punctuation issues as a rule do not receive the attention they deserve in English language teaching materials.
First of all, you should know that the comma you are referring to is more common in educated US usage than in educated UK usage, although it has been referred to since time immemorial as "the Oxford comma." What tends to create confusion when dealing with this matter is that in many other languages, adding a comma before a conjunction in the last item in these series is considered a major composition error, as basic and annoying an error in those languages as the tendency of the average English-speaking third-grader to write run-on sentences in classroom essays entitled "What I Did Last Summer."

My recommendation would be not to omit this final comma, the Oxford comma, in English writing, but others have a different view of the matter and are entitled to it. In any case, any English language teacher who would INSIST that as a general English practice students should either add or leave this comma out does not really understand the phenomenon, and in a just world would be working in a different field.
Preparation for the writing sections of major language examinations or to impress a specific audience is an entirely different kettle of fish. Let's say you have to write an e-mail to a bilingual American superior who live in your country, and your language frowns on the Oxford comma. This usually means that first-language interference keeps any native speakers of your language from adding it when they write anything in English. By all means, it's a good idea find a way to use the Oxford comma in such an email.
It should be needless to say (but isn't) that this sort of fine-tuning is something that no student need worry about before attaining an advanced-level knowledge of English. If a writer were to make major mistakes in spelling, tenses, word order, and/or word choice in the first paragraph of our hypothetical email, e.g.: "I recieving the post have you been sent yesterday," well, no amount of proper Oxford commas will correct the overt negative impression that will be conveyed to an English native-speaker reader, especially a monolingual reader who knows nothing about learning a foreign language and couldn't care less. I think almost everyone on the planet is aware that the English- speaking world has its fair share and more of ignorant bigots like these.
James Karaway

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