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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
In/at/with/from/for X company
A. I was an accountant in Chevron company.
B. I was an accountant at Chevron company.
C. I was an accountant with Chevron company.
D. I was an accountant from Chevron company.
F. I was an accountant for Chevron company.
1. Could you please advise which is/are the correct preposition(s) above?
2. If two or more is possible, does one suggest a different meaning over the others?
3. Which is more natural if I mean I used to work for Chevron company?
4. Incidentally, should the word 'company' above be capitalized at the beginning?
I would really appreciate your help here. Thanks.
B. I was an accountant at Chevron company.
C. I was an accountant with Chevron company.
D. I was an accountant from Chevron company.
F. I was an accountant for Chevron company.
1. Could you please advise which is/are the correct preposition(s) above?
2. If two or more is possible, does one suggest a different meaning over the others?
3. Which is more natural if I mean I used to work for Chevron company?
4. Incidentally, should the word 'company' above be capitalized at the beginning?
I would really appreciate your help here. Thanks.
Top answer
At, with, and for are all good and mean the same thing. You should not use company after Chevron. If you want to use company for some reason, you need the before Chevron , but you would not capitalize company because it is not part of the name of the company.
- At, with, and for are all good and mean the same thing.
- You should not use company after Chevron.
- If you want to use company for some reason, you need the before Chevron , but you would not capitalize company because it is not part of the name of the company.
- I was an accountant at Chevron.
- I was an accountant with Chevron.
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At, with, and for are all good and mean the same thing. You should not use company after Chevron.
If you want to use company for some reason, you need the before Chevron, but you would not capitalize company because it is not part of the name of the company.
I was an accountant at Chevron.
I was an accountant with Chevron.
I was an ac
If you want to use company for some reason, you need the before Chevron, but you would not capitalize company because it is not part of the name of the company.
I was an accountant at Chevron.
I was an accountant with Chevron.
I was an ac
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Thank you very much, Englishmaven. That was really helpful.
So 'in' in my sentence is never correct, but what about 'from'? Can I use it to introduce myself to someone like a client?
I'm an accountant from Chevron.
Or at, with, and for are still the correct ones in the sense that I'm introducing myself or letting the cl
So 'in' in my sentence is never correct, but what about 'from'? Can I use it to introduce myself to someone like a client?
I'm an accountant from Chevron.
Or at, with, and for are still the correct ones in the sense that I'm introducing myself or letting the cl
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If you are an accountant on an audit assignment at a client's offfice and you have just arrived at the reception, you may introduce yourself " My name is ABC and I am an account with /from XYZ...".
If you mean to tell people that you had worked for Chevron as an accountant, you'd say " I had worked at Chevron as a [senior] accountant for
If you mean to tell people that you had worked for Chevron as an accountant, you'd say " I had worked at Chevron as a [senior] accountant for
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Thank you so much, dimsumexpress, for your input.
dimsumexpressyou may introduce yourself " My name is ABC and I am an account with /from XYZ..."I see with/from works in this case.
dimsumexpressIf you mean to tell people that you had worked for Chevron as an accountant, you'd say " I had worked
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AnonymousdimsumexpressIf you mean to tell people that you had worked for Chevron as an accountant, you'd say " I had worked at Chevron as a [senior] accountant for 5 years.Assuming you are writing your C V to apply for a new job. All the prior working experience should be preferrably described in past perfect in my opini
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Thank you, dimsumexpress, for your helpful explanation.
dimsumexpressAssuming you are writing your C V to apply for a new job. All the prior working experience should be preferrably described in past perfect in my opinion. i.e. I had managed a team of 5 engineers at the San Jose headquarter for 3 years before relocating to the office in Arlington Texas in 2007.
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AnonymousI had worked at X company for 5 years (before I resigned in 2006).The best phrasing, in my opinion, is
I worked at X company for five years (2001-2006).
If you use another past reference, then past perfect is fine. It sets up a sequence of events:
I had worked (been working) at X company for five years when I received an offer I
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AnonymousThank you, dimsumexpress, for your helpful explanation.dimsumexpressAssuming you are writing your C V to apply for a new job. All the prior working experience should be preferrably described in past perfect in my opinion. i.e. I had managed a team of 5 engineers at the San Jose headquarter for 3 years before relocating to the office in Ar
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars for sharing your thoughts on this.
AlpheccaStarsIf you use another past reference, then past perfect is fine. It sets up a sequence of events:
I had worked (been working) at X company for five years when I received an offer I could not refuse: to lead a team of six investigative reporters gathering proof of the innocence of a man on
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dimsumexpress1. Assuming it's for my CV, do I have to explicitly state a later past event like your 'before...' clause/phrase in your example to make the use of the past perfect correct? 2. Can I plainly use the past perfect with an implied clause/phrase that it was before my resignation as in the sentence below? It depends
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