http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569674Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:35:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569674innamuris0http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569674http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-569674.xmlHi CalifJim, Thanks very much.. you cleared my doubt !!! :)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569667Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:35:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569667CalifJim1http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569667http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-569667.xmlWelcome to English Forums! Be sure to include the full context when asking a question. Without more context, to me has to be seriously qualified means that many conditions and/or limitations have to be added to what has been said before it becomes a truly accurate statement. For example, if someone says, &quot;Eating cheesecake will make you fat&quot;, you can respond that you think that the statement has to be seriously qualified, because it depends on how much cheesecake you eat, what kind of cheesecake it is (It may be fat-free cheesecake), and various other factors. CJ Edit: I wrote this before seeing your last post. It turns out that this is the meaning I had in mind.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569666Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:35:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569666innamuris2http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569666http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-569666.xmlThanks for your response Philip. Here is the context where i came across &#39;seriously qualified&#39;. The reluctance to—abandon this hypothesis, however well it explains specific processes, impeded new research, and for many years antigens and antibodies dominated the thoughts of immunologists so completely that those immunologists overlooked certain difficulties. Perhaps the primary difficulty with the antigen-antibody explanation is the informational problem of how an antigen is recognized and how a structure exactly complementary to it is then synthesized. When molecular biologists discovered, moreover, that such information cannot flow from protein to protein, but only from nucleic acid to protein, the theory that an antigen...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569659Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:35:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569659Philip3http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htm#569659http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-569659.xmlWelcome to the forums, innamuris! Without context, it is often impossible to offer a valid answer. Seriously is generally associated with a negative adjective . This sounds like a person playing with the language somewhat.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htmMon, 25 May 2009 20:35:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569657innamuris4http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasToBeSeriouslyQualified/gnqcv/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-569657.xmlHi, Could any one of you please help me with the below: when you say &#39;something has to be seriously qualified&#39; what does it mean? Thanks, Suneel