participial phrase (interview setting)

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1. I applied for Hotel Management Department, hoping to create comfortable future recreational life.

Q) Suppose that a student "I" is being interviewed.
Intended meaning of #1 is "I" applied for HM because "I" want to create comfortable future recreational life after I graduate from the university. Is this intended meaning included in #1?

GPY · Accepted Answer

"I applied for Hotel Management Department" is not correct. Does it mean "I applied for a job in the Hotel Management Department"?

The second part should be "hoping to create a comfortable future recreational life" but it sounds odd, and the meaning of "future recreational life" is unclear, especially in a job interview.

Basically the whole sentence is faulty or odd.

Moon7296 · Answer

Ah, okay. the interview setting is for a student to apply for a university, and not a job. There may be a faculty(or department) called Hotel Management Department.

Is the first part still weird considering that university application setting?

As for the second part, it's hard to translate that "future recreational life" in English.

I think it should be "... hoping to create a comfortable future recreational environment for people."

GPY · Answer

moon7296Is the first part still weird considering that university application setting?

The first part is actually ungrammatical (at minimum needs an article), but the wording anyway doesn't seem appropriate for this situation. You can say "I applied to study/do hotel management" or "I applied for the hotel management course".

moon7296I think it should be "... hoping to create a comfortable future recreational environment for people."

It sounds odd. Do you mean anything like "I think I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilties to customers"?

Moon7296 · Answer

GPYDo you mean anything like "I think I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilties to customers"?

Oh, that sounds better and very clear. Not just "customers" and all people.

Last question.

Then does it sound weird if I connect two sentences you suggested, making the second sentence a participial sentence? I.e., I applied for Hotel Management Department, thinking I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilities to customers.

Anonymous · Answer

moon7296 1. I applied for Hotel Management Department, hoping to create comfortable future recreational life. Q) Suppose that a student "I" is being interviewed. Intended meaning of #1 is "I" applied for HM because "I" want to create comfortable future recreational life after I graduate from the university. Is this intended meaning included in #1?

I applied for a job in the Hotel Management Department. I hope to get the job as I've stated, in the application, my intention to create a comfortable living and recreational areas for hotel visitors.

GPY · Answer

moon7296Then does it sound weird if I connect two sentences you suggested, making the second sentence a participial sentence? I.e., I applied for Hotel Management Department, thinking I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilities to customers.

As I have mentioned, the first part is not right. If you correct the first part along the lines I suggested then you get:

"I applied for the hotel management course, thinking I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilities to customers."

However, this can be read with a nuance of "but actually I didn't", so I would not really recommend it. If you are looking forward to what you want to do in your career, this seems better:

"I applied for the hotel management course because I think I would enjoy providing hospitality and leisure facilities to customers."

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