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AmmonJerro Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Using tense+verb and am/is/are in succession in the same sentence
Hello again. There's something I'm not entirely sure about. This one has been confusing me in different instances for a long time. Is the sentence below correct?
"HR management aims to hire candidates that will carry our company to the future, are best suited for the position and committed to its corporate values."
I'm generally confused about all kinds of tense+verb, modals and copular structure combinations that require you to use them in succession in the same sentence.
I hope I'm not bothering you with all these questions, so I only ask those that I think about hard and long and still can't figure out by myself. Thanks for the answers.
"HR management aims to hire candidates that will carry our company to the future, are best suited for the position and committed to its corporate values."
I'm generally confused about all kinds of tense+verb, modals and copular structure combinations that require you to use them in succession in the same sentence.
I hope I'm not bothering you with all these questions, so I only ask those that I think about hard and long and still can't figure out by myself. Thanks for the answers.
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'Aims' is too casual and the idea is redundant to the statement. Your sentence would be more acceptable if you arranged its terms in a more logical fashion: HR management hires candidates who are best suited for the position, committed to its corporate values , and will carry our company into the future. AmmonJerro I hope I'm not bothering you with all these questions 'All your questions' is the raison d'être of our website.
- 'Aims' is too casual and the idea is redundant to the statement.
- Your sentence would be more acceptable if you arranged its terms in a more logical fashion: HR management hires candidates who are best suited for the position, committed to its corporate values , and will carry our company into the future.
- AmmonJerro I hope I'm not bothering you with all these questions 'All your questions' is the raison d'être of our website.
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'Aims' is too casual and the idea is redundant to the statement. Your sentence would be more acceptable if you arranged its terms in a more logical fashion:
HR management hires candidates who are best suited for the position, committed to its corporate values, and will carry our company into the future.
HR management hires candidates who are best suited for the position, committed to its corporate values, and will carry our company into the future.
AmmonJerroI hope I'm
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Thanks a lot. So what I gather from your correction is, generally when I'm confronted with such a long sentence that requires me to use modals, tense+verb and am/is/are in successive clauses, it would be better to arrange the type of clause that is used the most firstly after the conjunction (for this instance copular clauses) and then place the remaining clauses. Have I got it right?
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No, what you must do is be as helpful as you can in making matters clear: I arranged those in roughly the order in which they would occur during employment. Of course the individual structures must also be taken into consideration and arranged logically and/or clearly. Sometimes you may simply have to recast the sentence.
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