Posted by rfvv on Friday, October 21, 2016 at 9:54pm.




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Does #1 mean #2 and #3? •English - Writeacher, Friday, October 21, 2016 at 10:36pm
2 and 3 are identical, aren't they? 1. It's usually very windy and foggy.
2. It's usually very windy and it's very foggy.
3. It's usually very windy and it's very foggy.

Yes, they mean the same as 1, but the extra words make them wordy.

•English - rfvv, Friday, October 21, 2016 at 10:57pm
I corrected two parts.

1. It's usually very windy and foggy.
2. It's usually very windy and it's very foggy.
3. It's usually very windy and it's foggy.
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Does #1 mean #2 or #3?

•English - Writeacher, Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 9:17am
They still all mean about the same thing.

1 has a compound predicate adjective "windy and foggy" which is modified by "very."

2 and 3 have become compound sentences -- two shorter sentences in each, joined together by "and."

The only difference in 3 is that there must be a little less fog, since it's not "very foggy" anymore!
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Thank you. Do you mean that #1 means #2. Do you mean #1 doesn't mean #3?

1. It's usually very windy and foggy.
2. It's usually very windy and it's very foggy.
3. It's usually very windy and it's foggy.

They all mean approximately the same thing. Adding the word "very" just intensifies the adjective in these sentences.

Yes, according to the explanation given by Writeacher, #1, #2, and #3 all have similar meanings, but there are slight differences in the way they are constructed.

In #1, "It's usually very windy and foggy," the phrase "windy and foggy" is a compound predicate adjective modified by the adverb "very." This means that both the windiness and the fog are described as being of a high degree.

In #2, "It's usually very windy and it's very foggy," two shorter sentences are joined together by the conjunction "and." This results in a compound sentence, where each shorter sentence has its own subject and verb. Here, both the windiness and the fog are described as being of a high degree, just like in #1.

In #3, "It's usually very windy and it's foggy," the conjunction "and" is used to join two shorter sentences together. However, in this case, the degree of fog is not specified as being "very foggy." This implies that there may be a little less fog compared to #2, since it is not described as being of a high degree.

So, in summary, #1 and #2 have similar meanings as they both describe high degrees of windiness and fog, while #3 has a slightly different meaning with a lesser degree of fog.