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Piggysmile Posted 21 years ago
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A Ranking Question

0 James is the 4th CEO of our company. 02br
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00Assume that you don't know that James is the 4th CEO and you want to ask an information question which would be answerable by 4th. What will that question be? 02br
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0 To me, it sounds odd to suppose a company has CEOs as many as four. Do you mean "executive directors" by "CEOs"? ".

— Paco2004

  • 0 To me, it sounds odd to suppose a company has CEOs as many as four.
  • Do you mean "executive directors" by "CEOs"?
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  • However, as I am a learner, please wait till native speakers give you better answers.
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0 To me, it sounds odd to suppose a company has CEOs as many as four. Do you mean "executive directors" by "CEOs"? 02br
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00My try is "What number is James ranked among the executive directors of your company?". However, as I am a learner, please wait till native speakers give you better answers. 02br
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0 Hi, 02br
00Paco, there would be one CEO at a time. It's a question of ranking 'over time'. 02br
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00'What number is James ranked chronologically (ie not by ability) among the CEO's of your company?' 02br
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00A more natural way to ask this, though, might be 02br
00'How many CEO's have there been so
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0 Hi piggysmile, 02br
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00I'm just a learner but I'd like to take a stab at it. 02br
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00"How many CEOs came before James?" Answer: 3 0-
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0 Clive 02br
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00Thanks! 02br
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00Because the title is "a ranking question", I mistook what the questioner is asking. 02br
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00If so, my try would be simply 02br
00 "What number CEO is James in the history of your company?" 02br
00Does this sound weird to you? 02br
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0 Hi guys, 02br
00As you can see, there are a lot of ways to get this information. But if you want to specifically get the one-word answer '4th.', not '4', you have to ask the question carefully and perhaps a bit unnaturally. So, you have to decide what the objective is. 02br
00Clive 0-
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0 thanks, my classmate asked help in translating a question similar to that from our language to english. 0-
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0Unfortunately for those who have the equivalent word in their language, there is no "whichth" in English! Maybe we should add it? 05002br
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