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Azz Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Such as

Is there a difference between
a. Great novelists such as Flaubert and Dickens used this method.
and
b. Great novelists, such as Flaubert and Dickens, used this method.
?

I think (a) is the same as
c. Such great novelists as Flaubert and Dickens used this method.

So we have a subcategory of the category 'great novelist'. We are talking about a particular kind of 'great novelist' and not about all of them.
But in (b) 'such as just means 'for example'.

I am not sure that (a) is not ambiguous.

Many Thanks.
  

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azz Is there a difference betweena. andb. Great novelists, such as Flaubert and Dickens, used this method.?

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  • azz Is there a difference betweena.
  • andb.
  • Great novelists, such as Flaubert and Dickens, used this method.?
  • No difference.
  • The commas are optional.
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azzIs there a difference betweena. Great novelists such as Flaubert and Dickens used this method.andb. Great novelists, such as Flaubert and Dickens, used this method.?
No difference. The commas are optional.

Here is an example of "such great novelists"
Flaubert and Dickens were such great novelists that their books have never been
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Thank you very much AlpheccaStars,

So you would say that (c) does not mean the same as (a), am I correct?

Many Thanks.
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azzSo you would say that (c) does not mean the same as (a), am I correct?
I would interpret it as the same meaning, but it is not a very natural use of "such."
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