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> ADD 5 TO X GIVING X

Grammatically, this would not change X. "...GIVING X" would just return X. Since it's part of the same statement, it seems it should ignore the "ADD 5 TO X" part.

Now, if you'd like to place the result into X, I suggest "ADD 5 TO X" would suffice as the entire statement.



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