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by thephoenix » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:21 pm

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by vivek1110 » Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:15 pm
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by arpita@gurome » Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:54 pm
The link posted above is good. You can fix the sentence by using a semicolon instead of a comma after "MBA".

I need to prove to a computer that I'm good enough to do an MBA; such is the world's dependence on the computer.

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by kstv » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:28 pm
arpita@gurome wrote:The link posted above is good. You can fix the sentence by using a semicolon instead of a comma after "MBA".
I need to prove to a computer that I'm good enough to do an MBA; such is the world's dependence on the computer.
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Such is a demonstrative pronoun ?
The replacement of the noun by such has to be understood in the context.
It is possible without the inital independent clause ?

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