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Emily__ Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

completion/completing

"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise."

Why I can´t use "completing"? Is it because of the conection with the preposition "ON"?

Dictionary explanation: Completion - the act of completing or the state of being completed

Completing - acting as or providing a complement

(the meanings are very similar)

thanks again
  

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I think "on completing" would be correct too. See these, esp the 2nd: The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles - Chapter 21 All these questions, and many such, are put on the spur of the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys. The Uncommercial, invited to add another, falteringly demands how many birthdays a man born on the twenty-ninth of February will have had on completing his fiftieth year?

— Marius Hancu

  • I think "on completing" would be correct too.
  • See these, esp the 2nd: The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles - Chapter 21 All these questions, and many such, are put on the spur of the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys.
  • The Uncommercial, invited to add another, falteringly demands how many birthdays a man born on the twenty-ninth of February will have had on completing his fiftieth year?
  • Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo - Chapter 145 On completing his high school and university courses with medals , Alexey Alexandrovitch had , with his uncle's aid , immediately ...
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I think "on completing" would be correct too. See these, esp the 2nd:


The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles - Chapter 21
All these questions, and many such, are put on the
spur of the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys.
The Uncommercial, invited to add
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Notice that in Marius' examples, the possessive is used with the gerund: "his completing", and not with the noun "completion".
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"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise."

So why do you think it couldn´t be "on completing" in this sentense? (as my grammar key said).

I´m confused about it.
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Emily__"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise."

So why do you think it couldn´t be "on completing" in this sentense? (as my grammar key said).

I´m confused about it.
I think on completing could be used:

On completing the course, she was given a pay rise. It sounds completely acceptable to me.
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Thanks, I´ve got it.

I had to fill the gap so if there was On ............ of the course ......

there could only be "completion" (because of the preposition OF). Glad it´s puzzled out.
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Emily__"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise."

Does anyone else think that pay raise sounds better?
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"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise." ---fine

completing the course, she was given a pay rise. ---ok to me

As to the rise/raise problem, well, I prefer "rise", but the google results suggest "pay raise" is also fine.
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Emily__"On completion of the course she was given a pay rise."

Does anyone else think that pay raise sounds better?
Unfortunatelly, pay doesn't rise by itself so r
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