I do it this way

Posted By: (sm) on 2006-07-19
In Reply to: grammar help when using versus in a series - confused

Subject: I do it this way

There was a recent discussion on here about this, and I believe the concensus of posters involved was that the following example is correct:

The mole is blue versus black, versus brown, versus green, versus . . .

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grammar help when using versus in a series - confused
- I do it this way - (sm)
  - Could have been the "concensus" but I'll go with grammatically correct. - jcr
    - Since it is that too - guess I'm good to go
- In the sentence you describe, I would not separate by common and use v or vs instead, as cited by... - jcr
  - This is not very helpful - as it would seem
    - What's not helpful? Looks like the poster got it straight from a dictionary! - helper T cell
      - Read the post! - (nm)
        I read it! - simma down

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