TAKE THE FREE DICTIONARY, for example:
DEFINITIONS:
1) SINE QUA NON: something that is essential before you can achieve something else
2) PART AND PARCEL: to be a feature of something, especially a feature that cannot be avoided:
3) SUM AND SUBSTANCE: The central or most important idea, aspect, or part of something; the essence or summary of something.
EXAMPLES:
1) SINE QUA NON:
Some consider a good education to be the sine qua non of a successful career.
An interest in children is a sine qua non of teaching
2) PART AND PARCEL:
Dealing with tantrums is part and parcel of raising a toddler.
I'm afraid customer complaints are part and parcel of this job
3) SUM AND SUBSTANCE:
The sum and substance of their platform is financial conservatism.
The sum and substance of her argument is that a redistribution of wealth would spur the economy into huge gains.
In each of these examples, these three terms seem to refer to "something that acts as the main central component or essential part of a larger system"
riderdecade25 In each of these examples, these three terms seem to refer to "something that acts as the main central component or essential part of a larger system" I wouldn't say that. Go back over the definitions with your thinking cap on. They are good ones.
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riderdecade25In each of these examples, these three terms seem to refer to "something that acts as the main central component or essential part of a larger system"
I wouldn't say that. Go back over the definitions with your thinking cap on. They are good ones.