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Jack112 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

When to use And and Or

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00However, larger organizations with fast Internet connections, complex firewall configurations that require application filtering, 11b10or 12b10high availability requirements might want to deploy ISA Server, Enterprise Edition, on multiple servers to meet their requirements.12blockquote
10The quote is the original sentence, why didn't the author use '01b00and/or02b00' ? Isn't that the one that makes the most sense?02br
001. However, larger organizations with fast Internet connections, complex firewall configurations that require application filtering, 01b00and 02b00high availability requirements might want to deploy ISA Server, Enterprise Edition, on multiple servers to meet their requirements.02br
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002. However, larger organizations with fast Internet connections, complex firewall configurations that require application filtering,01b00 and/or02b00 high availability requirements might want to deploy ISA Server, Enterprise Edition, on multiple servers to meet their requirements.02br
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02br 00 But if an organization has more than one of these, it obviously has one, which already means that it might want ABC. There is therefore no need to require or even consider two or three together in order to trigger the idea that the organization might want ABC. 02br 02br 00 CJ02br 0-

— CalifJim

  • 02br 00 But if an organization has more than one of these, it obviously has one, which already means that it might want ABC.
  • There is therefore no need to require or even consider two or three together in order to trigger the idea that the organization might want ABC.
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0 This can be reduced to pure logic, thus:02br
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00 Organizations with X or Y or Z might want ABC.02br
00 = An organization might want ABC if it has X or if it has Y, or if it has Z.02br
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00 According to the text, having any single entity from the set X, Y, Z means that the organization might want ABC.02br
00 But if an or
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00For example, you can use HTTP filtering to block the use of a particular peer-to-peer file-sharing service for one set of users, but allow it for another set, 11b10or12b10 you can allow Internet users to use specific HTTP methods such as POST for one Web publishing rule, but deny the method on another Web publishing rule. 12blockq
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0 Only context can determine whether 01i00or02i00 includes or excludes the possibility of 01i00or both02i00.02br
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00 The usage of 01i00or02i00 in your example is similar to this one:02br
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01i00You can go to Boston on vacation 01b00or02b00 you can go
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0 Thanks. That was a great exmaple. I have a much better understadning of that now.01blockquote
00Only context can determine whether 11i10or12i10 includes or excludes the possibility of 11i11b10or both12b10 12i10.12blockquote
101. Only context can determine whether 01i00or02i
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0 Only context can determine whether 01i00or02i00 includes or excludes the possibility of 01b01i00or both02i02b00 .02br
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00 This means:02br
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00 1. 01i00X or Y02i00 can mean 01i00X or Y 01b00or both02b00 (X and Y)02i00
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00Whenever you want to suggest choices like this, you use 11i10or12i10, not 11i10and12i10. There is no need to write 11i10and/or12i10 or 11i10or/and12i10.12blockquote
10But wow does the reader know if only one of the choices can be used or a combinati
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0 How does the reader know?02br
00 By using his common sense!02br
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0 When would I use 01b00'and/or'02b00 ? Can you give me one or two examples? Thanks.0-
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0 You may listen to music and/or have coffee.02br
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00You listen to music having a coffee or you don't listen to music and have a coffee.0-
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