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What (who) is AND - definition
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AND; And (disambiguation); And (album); AND (disambiguation); Aand
and
conj. this little word is important in law, particularly when compared to or. Most commonly it determines if one or both owners have to sign documents. Example: when an automobile registration reads that the title is for Barney and Sarah Oldfield, then both must sign off upon sale, but if it says "or" then only one will have to sign; if Barney dies then the title is automatically in Sarah's name if it reads "or," but not if it reads "and."
And
·conj If; though. ·see An, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
III. And ·conj In order to;
- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
IV. And ·conj A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
and
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use and to link two or more words, groups, or clauses.
When he returned, she and Simon had already gone...
Between 1914 and 1920 large parts of Albania were occupied by the Italians...
I'm going to write good jokes and become a good comedian...
I'm 53 and I'm very happy.
CONJ
2.
You use and to link two words or phrases that are the same in order to emphasize the degree of something, or to suggest that something continues or increases over a period of time.
Learning becomes more and more difficult as we get older...
We talked for hours and hours...
He lay down on the floor and cried and cried.
CONJ [emphasis]
3.
You use and to link two statements about events when one of the events follows the other.
I waved goodbye and went down the stone harbour steps...
= then
CONJ
4.
You use and to link two statements when the second statement continues the point that has been made in the first statement.
You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough...
CONJ
5.
You use and to link two clauses when the second clause is a result of the first clause.
All through yesterday crowds have been arriving and by midnight thousands of people packed the square.
CONJ
6.
You use and to interrupt yourself in order to make a comment on what you are saying.
As Downing claims, and as we noted above, reading is best established when the child has an intimate knowledge of the language...
CONJ
7.
You use and at the beginning of a sentence to introduce something else that you want to add to what you have just said. Some people think that starting a sentence with and is ungrammatical, but it is now quite common in both spoken and written English.
Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations.
CONJ
8.
You use and to introduce a question which follows logically from what someone has just said.
'He used to be so handsome.'-'And now?'...
CONJ
9.
And is used by broadcasters and people making announcements to change a topic or to start talking about a topic they have just mentioned.
And now the drought in Sudan...
CONJ
10.
You use and to indicate that two numbers are to be added together.
What does two and two make?
= plus
CONJ
11.
And is used before a fraction that comes after a whole number.
McCain spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam.
...fourteen and a quarter per cent.
CONJ
12.
You use and in numbers larger than one hundred, after the words 'hundred' or 'thousand' and before other numbers.
...three thousand and twenty-six pounds.
CONJ
Examples of use of AND
1. Manic – Deck the Halls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and... 6.
2. Reporters and politicians and Hill staffers stand shoulder to shoulder, gossiping and sweating and sipping and spilling and leering.
3. Web pages are music and poetry, and data is physics analysis and spreadsheets and economics and budgets and stuff.
4. Everything else is replaceable clothes and furniture and TV‘s and computers and refrigerators and china.
5. BUSH: The teams are led by Sweden and Norway and Germany and Hungary and Italy and Spain and Lithuania and Canada and Britain and the Netherlands and the United States.