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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Calculate on someone to do

  1. We're calculating on about 30 guests to attend the meeting tomorrow.

  2. We're calculating on about 30 guests to be attending the meeting tomorrow.

  3. We're calculating on about 30 guests attending the meeting tomorrow.

  4. We're calculating about 30 guests to be attending the meeting tomorrow.
  5. We're calculating about 30 guests to attend the meeting tomorrow.

Could you answer what are the correct English sentences?

  

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None of those seem satisfactory to me. I suggest eg We calculate that about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow. eg We expect about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow.

— Clive

  • None of those seem satisfactory to me.
  • I suggest eg We calculate that about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow.
  • eg We expect about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow.
  • eg We're counting on about 30 guests to attend the meeting tomorrow.
  • count on is an idiom meaning rely on.
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None of those seem satisfactory to me. I suggest

eg We calculate that about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow.

eg We expect about 30 guests will attend the meeting tomorrow.

eg We're counting on about 30 guests to attend the meeting tomorrow. count on is an idiom meaning rely on.


Are they really guests or are they

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