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Accmanu Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Grammatical mistakes
I just wanted to know if the following para is grammatically wrong:
Our team are dedicated to providing you with the best possible solutions. They always enjoy hearing your stories so please keep sending them your feedback.
What I feel is that it should be:
Our team is dedicated in providing you with the best possible solutions. We always enjoy hearing your stories so please keep sending us ....
Is there any circumstances that we can use are instead of is with Our team?? Does marketing strategies permit this or so on??? Another can any other tense except present be used with to preposition?
Thanks
Our team are dedicated to providing you with the best possible solutions. They always enjoy hearing your stories so please keep sending them your feedback.
What I feel is that it should be:
Our team is dedicated in providing you with the best possible solutions. We always enjoy hearing your stories so please keep sending us ....
Is there any circumstances that we can use are instead of is with Our team?? Does marketing strategies permit this or so on??? Another can any other tense except present be used with to preposition?
Thanks
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The plural is fine. For a group of individuals you can either use the singular if you want to emphasise the group (single entity), or the plural if you want to refer to all of the people (multiple entities) that make up the group. Cheers John.
- The plural is fine.
- For a group of individuals you can either use the singular if you want to emphasise the group (single entity), or the plural if you want to refer to all of the people (multiple entities) that make up the group.
- Cheers John.
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The plural is fine.
For a group of individuals you can either use the singular if you want to emphasise the group (single entity), or the plural if you want to refer to all of the people (multiple entities) that make up the group.
Cheers
John.
For a group of individuals you can either use the singular if you want to emphasise the group (single entity), or the plural if you want to refer to all of the people (multiple entities) that make up the group.
Cheers
John.
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Thanks for your reply.
If you could also answer my second question of using 'to providing'. Can we use 'providing' with 'to' preposition? Can 'to' be used with 'ing' or past tenses?
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If you could also answer my second question of using 'to providing'. Can we use 'providing' with 'to' preposition? Can 'to' be used with 'ing' or past tenses?
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Please answer my question, if anyone can help me?
Can we use 'providing' with 'to' preposition like 'to providing'? Can 'to' be used with 'ing' or past tenses?
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Can we use 'providing' with 'to' preposition like 'to providing'? Can 'to' be used with 'ing' or past tenses?
Thanks
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There's no problem about these constructions. It also works with commited and devoted.
Someone can be dedicated to something or to do something. Ex.:
- I'm dedicated to studying the English language.
- I'm dedicated to study the English language.
- I'm dedicated to the study of the English language.
Someone can be dedicated to something or to do something. Ex.:
- I'm dedicated to studying the English language.
- I'm dedicated to study the English language.
- I'm dedicated to the study of the English language.
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Our team " is " refers to the team as a whole.
Our team " are " refers to the members in the team.
Both are acceptable.
To treat ' to ' as a preposition, the verb followed should be in ' gerund '.
As what other member mentioned earlier. I am dedicated ' to ' teaching .....
To treat ' to ' + ' infinitive ' in a sentence, we don't use .. ing.
Our team " are " refers to the members in the team.
Both are acceptable.
To treat ' to ' as a preposition, the verb followed should be in ' gerund '.
As what other member mentioned earlier. I am dedicated ' to ' teaching .....
To treat ' to ' + ' infinitive ' in a sentence, we don't use .. ing.
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Thanks for your inputs..
Don't you think that if I have to write 'Our team are dedicated......to providing', it will be more appropriate if we write it as 'Our team members are dedicated ....... in providing' or 'Our team is dedicated..... in providing'.
Do you think, the second and third options are better to be used rather than the first option?
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Don't you think that if I have to write 'Our team are dedicated......to providing', it will be more appropriate if we write it as 'Our team members are dedicated ....... in providing' or 'Our team is dedicated..... in providing'.
Do you think, the second and third options are better to be used rather than the first option?
The first time I r
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in the traditional grammar "team" always takes a singular verb - but in current useage more and more people are writing with the "sense" that the team is more than one person, and adopting the plural verb ending,
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Your confusion is whether to use ' gerund ' or ' to + infinitive '. In fact, the most distinguishable of the two is when ' to ' is used, it gives a sense of ' going to happen '.
You are dedicated to ' provide ' or ' providing ' .... ( ' to provide ' means you might be doing it soon )
whereas ( ' to providing ' means you say it in the general sense without any hurry to do )
You are dedicated to ' provide ' or ' providing ' .... ( ' to provide ' means you might be doing it soon )
whereas ( ' to providing ' means you say it in the general sense without any hurry to do )
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I'm sorry, but you are mistaken about this. I've found the following constructions thousands of times in many books and around the Internet and I'm pretty sure they are correct. You should not state something as true if you are not certain about it. After all, 'to + gerund' has never been a problem. What about the sentence 'I look forward to meeting you tomorrow'?
- I'm dedicated to stu
- I'm dedicated to stu
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I agree, there has never been a problem.
I didn't say it was a problem after all.
Oh I think the use of ' Your confusion ..
I didn't say it was a problem after all.Oh I think the use of ' Your confusion ..
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