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Evo25 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Aim/is aimed

1.Marketing to suppliers is aimed at ensuring a long-term conflict-free relationship in which all parties understand each other's needs and exceed each other's expectations.
2.Marketing to suppliers aims at ensuring a long-term conflict-free relationship in which all parties understand each other's needs and exceed each other's expectations.
Which one is the correct sentence?
Thanks for explain further.
  

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I prefer the first, because it suggests that someone is aiming the marketing at something. The marketing doesn't really aim at anything by itself. Aiming, in my opinion, takes a agent to do the aiming, and an agent is implied by the passive voice of the first sentence.

— CalifJim

  • I prefer the first, because it suggests that someone is aiming the marketing at something.
  • The marketing doesn't really aim at anything by itself.
  • Aiming, in my opinion, takes a agent to do the aiming, and an agent is implied by the passive voice of the first sentence.
  • Still, you can take the meanings of aim more broadly to allow the marketing to do the "aiming", so I would say both are acceptable in spite of my preference for the first.
  • CJ
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I prefer the first, because it suggests that someone is aiming the marketing at something. The marketing doesn't really aim at anything by itself. Aiming, in my opinion, takes a agent to do the aiming, and an agent is implied by the passive voice of the first sentence.

Still, you can take the meanings of aim more broadly to allow the marketing to do the "aiming", so I would sa
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So i means "is aimed"here appear as a passive passive voice past participle?
Thanks for explaining again!
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Yes.
aims is active voice.
is aimed is passive voice.

CJ
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