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Vsuresh Posted 12 years ago
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Please tell me if this sentence sounds natural.
English teachers Raj and Vinod welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks respectively.
Please tell me if this sentence sounds natural.
English teachers Raj and Vinod welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks respectively.
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I think I would move the word "respectively": English teachers Raj and Vinod respectively welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks.
- I think I would move the word "respectively": English teachers Raj and Vinod respectively welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks.
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I think I would move the word "respectively":
English teachers Raj and Vinod respectively welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks.
English teachers Raj and Vinod respectively welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks.
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vsureshEnglish teachers Raj and Vinod welcomed the audience and proposed a vote of thanks respectively.You might even express this in the passive voice.
The audience was welcomed and a vote of thanks proposed by Raj and Vinod respectively.
The meaning of "a vote of thanks" is a bit puzzling to me.
CJ
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CalifJimThe meaning of "a vote of thanks" is a bit puzzling to me."vote of thanks" is quite a familiar phrase for me. However, now I come to think more closely about it, I find myself unsure about exactly what it entails.
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GPY"vote of thanks" is quite a familiar phrase for me.Not for me. Maybe it's more common in BrE. At first the bizarre idea came to mind that a vote was to be taken to determine whether the audience should thank someone or not, but I dismissed that immediately as nonsense. I suppose that in that context "vote" is goes back to an older usage in which "vote"
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fivejedjonhttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/vote-of-thanksOh yeah ... so there is never any actual vote?
I don't know why I don't know this. It's a pretty well-known expression (in the UK).
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fivejedjonhttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/vote-of-thanksOK. So the site gives this example:
The new Chairperson stood up and proposed (= said) a vote of thanks to the retiring Chair for all her hard work.
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I feel a little sad that I was not there to get in and say what it meant to us (Indians) and when it is used.
Thank you to all your questions and comments.
Thank you to all your questions and comments.
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CalifJimSo the new Chairperson says, "I propose a vote of thanks to the retiring Chair for all her hard work", and it's all over? That in itself is the demonstration of appreciation? Or does the audience applaud?We may applaud;, we may stand to applaud; we may thump our hands on the table; we may call out "Hear, hear"; we may do any of these things and raise
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