Orderly cue up, take out their papers and wait for them to be rubber stamped.

Hi,

Is this grammatical?

We shouldn't expect these people to orderly cue up, take out their papers and wait for them to be rubber stamped.

BrE is 'queue up', 'line up'. I believe AmE is 'line up', 'make a line'.

'Orderly' is an adjective.

We shouldn't expect these people to line up in an orderly way, take out their papers and wait for

A line of people is a queue, pronounced the same as 'cue'.

I would not use 'orderly' here - it doesn't fit naturally with either 'queue' or 'line'.
You have the correct sense of a 'neat and tidy' queue, but I would suggest:

"We shouldn't expect these people to line up neatly, take out their papers and wait for them to be rubber stamped."

or

"We shouldn't

Thanks for your replies, Clive and Patrick.

Is this version grammatical and natural?

We shouldn't expect these people to line up in an orderly fashion, taking out their papers, waiting to be rubber stamped.

Thanks

PBF

Thanks for your replies, Clive and Patrick.

Is this version grammatical and natural?

We shouldn't expect these people to line up in an orderly fashion, taking out their papers, waiting to be rubber stamped.

Thanks

PBF

Hi,

Is this version grammatical and natural?


We shouldn't expect these people to line up in an orderly fashion, taking out their papers and waiting for them to be rubber stamped.



This is grammatical. However, it shows all 3 actions going on at the same time. The other version indicates 3 actions, one after the other.



In my

CliveBrE is 'queue up', 'line up'. I believe AmE is 'line up', 'make a line'.

We use all three. Queue up is less common but I do hear it occasionally. I also hear queue in the business sense, "your project is the next in our queue."

Patrick LockerbyI would not use 'orderly' here - it doesn't fit naturally with either 'queue' or 'line'.

I think the reason that 'orderly' isn't natural is that forming a line or queue indicates order. It is redundant. It's hard to have a messy queue.


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