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Tennysonm Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Farewell

Is the use of "farewell" in the following sentence correct?

"We are having a party on Friday afternoon to farewell the faculty who are leaving."

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"We are having a party on Friday afternoon to say farewell to the faculty who is leaving" Alex

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"We are having a party on Friday afternoon to say farewell to the faculty who is leaving"

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Alex-93"We are having a party on Friday afternoon to say farewell to the faculty who is leaving"
Is "to the faculty who is leaving" correct? It doesn't sound right to me (but I am not completely au fait with the lingo of academia, and even less so with it as used in AmE).
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How would you say that Mr. Wordy? Emotion: smile

Perhaps at the faculty ?
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If I've understood the intention of the original sentence correctly, I would say "... say farewell to the faculty members who are leaving." However, I think that "faculty" can be used by itself to mean "faculty members", so I suppose "... to the faculty who are leaving" should work too. I don't know how common this usage is.
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Yes that's the way I considered "faculty", perhaps one could add "members" to clarify it.
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Yes, but you said "to the faculty who is leaving". It's the word "is" that I'm quibbling about.
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Mr WordyYes, but you said "to the faculty who is leaving". It's the word "is" that I'm quibbling about.

Yes, I really don't know what's correct to use here. Normally "are" would be correct when referring to faculties and is when it belongs to the singular form "faculty".
I don't know whether "are" would be the better choice because a faculty usua
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