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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Hello everyone,
At my workplace associates often use the term "The form is pending to be submitted" and it's always sounded wrong to me. When I need to use the term I write "The form is pending submission". Now even that sounds wrong to me! Please help!
At my workplace associates often use the term "The form is pending to be submitted" and it's always sounded wrong to me. When I need to use the term I write "The form is pending submission". Now even that sounds wrong to me! Please help!
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I don't have the vaguest idea what native speakers say in idiomatic English, which need not be grammatical, of course, as idiomaticity often defies grammaticality. However, from a purely grammatical point of view, The form is pending to be submitted is correct and The form is pending submission is ungrammatical since pend is an intransitive verb and consequently it can't have an object . CB
- I don't have the vaguest idea what native speakers say in idiomatic English, which need not be grammatical, of course, as idiomaticity often defies grammaticality.
- However, from a purely grammatical point of view, The form is pending to be submitted is correct and The form is pending submission is ungrammatical since pend is an intransitive verb and consequently it can't have an object .
- CB
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I don't have the vaguest idea what native speakers say in idiomatic English, which need not be grammatical, of course, as idiomaticity often defies grammaticality. However, from a purely grammatical point of view, The form is pending to be submitted is correct and The form is pending submission is ungrammatical since pend is an intransitive
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