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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentnece grammatically coreect?

There have been numerous responses already and in an effort to honor respondent’s time with the potential interview process, I was wondering if I could ask you some questions to help expedite the process?
  

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respondent's should be respondents' and you don't need the question mark at the end. "honor respondents' time with the potential interview process" doesn't sound right to me. I suppose you could change "with" to "in respect of", but, to be honest, I already find the phrase overly elaborate, and this just makes it worse.

— Mr Wordy

  • respondent's should be respondents' and you don't need the question mark at the end.
  • "honor respondents' time with the potential interview process" doesn't sound right to me.
  • I suppose you could change "with" to "in respect of", but, to be honest, I already find the phrase overly elaborate, and this just makes it worse.
  • Could you say something like "....
  • " or does that feel too casual?
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respondent's should be respondents' and you don't need the question mark at the end.

"honor respondents' time with the potential interview process" doesn't sound right to me. I suppose you could change "with" to "in respect of", but, to be honest, I already find the phrase overly elaborate, and this just makes it worse. Could you say something like ".... so that we don't w
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