2016年3月30日 · Using multiple "ands" in a list. Ask Question Asked 8 years, 10 months ago. Modified 8 years, 10 months ago.

2013年2月10日 · A friend of mine (a non-native speaker of English) has asked me to check her CV and I'm afraid / ashamed to say, I'm having trouble. Are there too many "and"s in the given …

You can certainly use more than one and in a sentence, and the rhetorical device is called polysyndeton.. At school today, we had sums and writing and play and dinner and a story and …

Even so, the phrase is ambiguous. At first read, I understood it as the asker liking three things: 1) chocolate; 2) vanilla; 3) lemon-(and-)orange ice cream—it was only on the second or third …

2020年8月5日 · Actually, I don't think there are too many commas or ands in that sentence. But if you feel there are, a good solution is to break the sentence into several sentences, as Mari …

“Ay! if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there would be no work for the tinkers.” @Sven Yargs has discovered an even earlier example, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, …

2017年4月8日 · Cloning must be researched and funded, however, its human involvement must be limited to prevent a veritable onslaught of ethical and legal battles, and promote its potential …

To reinforce that you intentionally left out commas, you may want to italicise the "ands": > Bob likes beer and wine and liquor. Just a suggestion - you may think its too heavy-handed …

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Polysyndeton is a common rhetorical device, and its use is perfectly acceptable without commas. Its multiple conjunctions (in your case, ands) call attention to themselves and therefore add the …