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Originally Posted by jambutty

Before bowing out of this topic I will confine myself to one final sentence that demonstrates the use of OR several times and still be grammatically correct.

If I intended to kill myself I could do it by jumping off a cliff or putting a bullet through my head or hanging myself or indeed taking poison. I could have used three commas instead of three of the OR’s but either way the sentence is correct.

Verb sap!

Even taking that example of yours, if you did use commas it doesn't mean that any of the commas could be a substitute for the word 'and' - in order to mean 'and' you would have to use the word 'and'.

If First Direct had wanted it to mean 'and' they would have had to write:





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