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Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.
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hadeshuang wrote on 08 Apr 2004:
[nq:1]Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.[/nq]
It means, "Please tell me if someone offers you a job and you say 'Yes, I'll take the job'."
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
For email, ehziuh htiw rehpycrebyc ecalper.
[nq:1]Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.[/nq]
It means, "Please tell me if someone offers you a job and you say 'Yes, I'll take the job'."
Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
For email, ehziuh htiw rehpycrebyc ecalper.
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[nq:1]Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.[/nq]
"If you take a job, tell me."
Whoever wrote the original sentence should know better than to mix the formal "should" (here meaning "if") with the colloquial "keep me posted".
Adrian
"If you take a job, tell me."
Whoever wrote the original sentence should know better than to mix the formal "should" (here meaning "if") with the colloquial "keep me posted".
Adrian
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[nq:1]Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.[/nq]
I have decided it best to leave Adrian to his own strict rulings on things.
The first part of the sentence is the conditional statement, referring to the fact that the person concerned may accept another job. A more informal sentence would begin "If you accept any job offer"
The second, is the colloquial
I have decided it best to leave Adrian to his own strict rulings on things.
The first part of the sentence is the conditional statement, referring to the fact that the person concerned may accept another job. A more informal sentence would begin "If you accept any job offer"
The second, is the colloquial
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[nq:2]Meanwhile should you accept any job offer, please keep me posted.[/nq]
[nq:1]"If you take a job, tell me." Whoever wrote the original sentence should know better than to mix the formal "should" (here meaning "if") with the colloquial "keep me posted". Adrian[/nq]
If I rephrase the original sentence, I may come up with the following:
Meanwhile, if you should accept my job off
[nq:1]"If you take a job, tell me." Whoever wrote the original sentence should know better than to mix the formal "should" (here meaning "if") with the colloquial "keep me posted". Adrian[/nq]
If I rephrase the original sentence, I may come up with the following:
Meanwhile, if you should accept my job off
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[nq:2]"If you take a job, tell me." Whoever wrote the ... (here meaning "if") with the colloquial "keep me posted". Adrian[/nq]
[nq:1]If I rephrase the original sentence, I may come up with the following: Meanwhile, if you should accept my job offer, you will keep me posted, won't you? I do not see anything wrong with the sentence in question, even in grammar.[/nq]
There's nothing wrong wi
[nq:1]If I rephrase the original sentence, I may come up with the following: Meanwhile, if you should accept my job offer, you will keep me posted, won't you? I do not see anything wrong with the sentence in question, even in grammar.[/nq]
There's nothing wrong wi
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