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Stevenukd Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

GIVE SALARY

1. The manager could have handed out the wages / could have given the salaries to the employees earlier, but she didn't do it.

- Does this sentence sound natural?

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Hi, I remember struggling to try to explain this to someone a few months ago. In the US, unless we're paid in cash under the table, what is mailed to us or handed to us is our weekly or monthly paycheck. Our wages and salaries are the theoretical agreed upon amount, not the actual funds.

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  • Hi, I remember struggling to try to explain this to someone a few months ago.
  • In the US, unless we're paid in cash under the table, what is mailed to us or handed to us is our weekly or monthly paycheck.
  • Our wages and salaries are the theoretical agreed upon amount, not the actual funds.
  • This can surely be argued, but this is the way we tend to think of it.
  • I think it's extremely unlikely that a native speaker would say the above, or the below: Where's my wages?
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Hi,

I remember struggling to try to explain this to someone a few months ago.

In the US, unless we're paid in cash under the table, what is mailed to us or handed to us is our weekly or monthly paycheck. Our wages and salaries are the theoretical agreed upon amount, not the actual funds. This can surely be argued, but this is the way we tend to think of it.

I think it
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Hi,

First, I think it it normal to say you give or better pay a wage/a salary to an employee, not hand out a wage/a salary to an employee. I think the meanings of 'wage' and 'salary' are different. I think salary is what a person gets once a month for his work.

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