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Haddie Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Announced?

In honor of the victims, a holiday was 'announced' the next day.
Is this sentence correct?
  

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It isn't very clear whether the next day was made a holiday, or whether there was an announcement next day that a holiday was to take place on some other day.

— GPY

  • It isn't very clear whether the next day was made a holiday, or whether there was an announcement next day that a holiday was to take place on some other day.
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It isn't very clear whether the next day was made a holiday, or whether there was an announcement next day that a holiday was to take place on some other day.
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Okay I'll rephrase to make my question clearer; "In honor of the victims, a holiday has been announced tomorrow". Is this a correct use of announced?
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Also, if I were to retain the original version of my sentence, how should I phrase it to make the meaning clear?
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Haddie Okay I'll rephrase to make my question clearer; "In honor of the victims, a holiday has been announced tomorrow". Is this a correct use of announced?
It would be better to say "a holiday has been announced for tomorrow", but I feel that "tomorrow has been declared a holiday" is more polished.
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Haddie Also, if I were to retain the original version of my sentence, how should I phrase it to make the meaning clear?
In honor of the victims, the following day was declared a holiday.
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Thank you. That was very helpful, however if my sentence were as follows, it would be incorrect according to your explanation, so how do I phrase it?
"The sound of XYZ's chirpy voice announcing ABC the next day always cheered everyone up"
Here XYZ is a person and ABC is an annual holiday that falls on a different date every year. ABC announces when it is, whether it is the following day o
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HaddieThat was very helpful, however if my sentence were as follows, it would be incorrect according to your explanation, so how do I phrase it?"The sound of XYZ's chirpy voice announcing ABC the next day always cheered everyone up"
I would say it's probably capable of improvement, rather than categorically incorrect. I think that the choice of wording depends
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Shouldn't it be the next day or the following day instead of tomorrow?
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Haddie Shouldn't it be the next day or the following day instead of tomorrow?
Strictly speaking you have a point. However, I think that "tomorrow" would be accepted by all but the strictest of readers, all the more so because of the lack of any great formality in the sentence as a whole.
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Thank you for all your help GPY.
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