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Snappy Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Questions about distributive singular
I am confused with the distributive plural and distributive singular.
"We must visit the customers at a later date."
Is this expression okay if we must visit the customers later but we cannot visit all the customers on the same day?
"Twelve customers are complaining because they are not happy with our repair services. Each of us must visit the customers and explain the situation."
Is this expression okay if there are 12 customers, and each of us (e.g., Bill, Charlie, Donna, George, Jane, Mike, Nancy, Peter, Susan, Tom, Victor, and I) must visit one of them, i.e., each of us visit one customer?
"We must visit the customers at a later date."
Is this expression okay if we must visit the customers later but we cannot visit all the customers on the same day?
"Twelve customers are complaining because they are not happy with our repair services. Each of us must visit the customers and explain the situation."
Is this expression okay if there are 12 customers, and each of us (e.g., Bill, Charlie, Donna, George, Jane, Mike, Nancy, Peter, Susan, Tom, Victor, and I) must visit one of them, i.e., each of us visit one customer?
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" Is this expression okay if we must visit the customers later but we cannot visit all the customers on the same day? Yes. I think the expression at a later date can comfortably accommodate the vague idea of simply later, at a later time , even on different days.
- " Is this expression okay if we must visit the customers later but we cannot visit all the customers on the same day?
- Yes.
- I think the expression at a later date can comfortably accommodate the vague idea of simply later, at a later time , even on different days.
- Snappy "Twelve customers are complaining because they are not happy with our repair services.
- , each of us visit one customer No.
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Snappy"We must visit the customers at a later date."Yes. I think the expression at a later date can comfortably accommodate the vague idea of simply later, at a later time, even on different days.
Is this expression okay if we must visit the customers later but we cannot visit all the customers on the same day?
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Thanks.
How do you say simply if i must vist one of them, Bill must visit one of them (but a different customer), etc. ?
How about "Each of us must visit a different one of the customers." or "We must visit the customer on a single-staff-member-to-a-single-customer basis."?
How do you say simply if i must vist one of them, Bill must visit one of them (but a different customer), etc. ?
How about "Each of us must visit a different one of the customers." or "We must visit the customer on a single-staff-member-to-a-single-customer basis."?
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Addition: Howabout "We must visit the customers on a
single-staff-member-to-a-single-customer basis."?
single-staff-member-to-a-single-customer basis."?
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SnappyWe must visit the customers on a single-staff-member-to-a-single-customer basis.You can use that long hyphenated adjective if you want, but it's not really idiomatic. I would say
Each of us will be assigned a different customer to visit.
Each of us must visit a different customer says the same thing.
CJ
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