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Rishonly Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Passive voice usage
Context:
Five days a week, all students are required to post messages into a particular newsgroup ,and these messages are accounted for students' attendance.
Now, using the following sentence, the business is asking a list of students who didn't post any message.
"We need a list of students those who are not posted the attendance till the time batch runs."
I see the above sentence is strange and grammatically incorrect because of the passive voice usage. In addition, If we say "..who are not posted into the attendance..." , the sentence would make sense. Am I right here?
Five days a week, all students are required to post messages into a particular newsgroup ,and these messages are accounted for students' attendance.
Now, using the following sentence, the business is asking a list of students who didn't post any message.
"We need a list of students those who are not posted the attendance till the time batch runs."
I see the above sentence is strange and grammatically incorrect because of the passive voice usage. In addition, If we say "..who are not posted into the attendance..." , the sentence would make sense. Am I right here?
Top answer
Hello Rishonly The verb 'post' in the sense of 'record' is transitive and so I think the phrase 'post the attendance' is not so bad. As for the construct of 'are not posted', it may be better to be changed into 'have not posted': We need a list of students those who have not posted the attendance till the time the batch runs. However, I think we cannot say this 'are not posted' is completely wrong if we take it as a ' be perfect construct '.
- Hello Rishonly The verb 'post' in the sense of 'record' is transitive and so I think the phrase 'post the attendance' is not so bad.
- As for the construct of 'are not posted', it may be better to be changed into 'have not posted': We need a list of students those who have not posted the attendance till the time the batch runs.
- However, I think we cannot say this 'are not posted' is completely wrong if we take it as a ' be perfect construct '.
- Though 'be perfective constructs' are of rare use in modern English, it was frequently used in pre modern English.
- they are used to emphasize the current state resultant from of a done event.
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Hello Rishonly
The verb 'post' in the sense of 'record' is transitive and so I think the phrase 'post the attendance' is not so bad. As for the construct of 'are not posted', it may be better to be changed into 'have not posted':
We need a list of students those who have not posted the attendance till the time the batch runs.
However, I think we c
The verb 'post' in the sense of 'record' is transitive and so I think the phrase 'post the attendance' is not so bad. As for the construct of 'are not posted', it may be better to be changed into 'have not posted':
We need a list of students those who have not posted the attendance till the time the batch runs.
However, I think we c
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I find the sentence only borderline comprehensible.
I am guessing, but I think it's trying to say, "We need a list of students who have not yet posted [any messages / their attendance] at the time of the batch run", where the batch run is the running of a scheduled computer program which perhaps logs the attendance.
CJ
I am guessing, but I think it's trying to say, "We need a list of students who have not yet posted [any messages / their attendance] at the time of the batch run", where the batch run is the running of a scheduled computer program which perhaps logs the attendance.
CJ
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Thanks Paco and CalifJim. So, the original sentence is grammatically correct, but not used frequently. Right?
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