

Neither you nor the band leader was at fault in that faux pas, though. It looks like it was the frame of mind you brought to the exchange that was logically faulty, and that having been the case, you wouldn’t have appreciated the correctness of the band leader’s answer even if you had asked the alternative question that you suggested, “Are all the members sons only?” (which, by the way, is syntactically flawed and even more confusing). This is why I’m almost sure that the band leader understood you perfectly and gave you a perfectly clear, unambiguous answer. The problem is that when you asked your question, you presumed that by naming their band “Sons of _,” they meant to say that they are “all only sons”-in Tagalog “lahat kaisang-isang anak na lalaki sa pamilya”-when, from all indications, they actually meant they were all sons of whatever occupational word it is that completes the phrase “Sons of _,” like, say, “Sons of OFWs” or “Sons of Great Sailors.” “Should I have asked ‘Are all the members sons only?’ so the band leader wouldn’t have misunderstood me?”įrom how you relate your conversation with that band leader, you did ask the right question, “Are all the members only sons?” and he did answer you correctly if indeed he said something to this effect, “I’m the only son in our group the other three have siblings.” “I wanted to find out if all of the four members of a Filipino band in our place are single men because they named themselves ‘Sons of _,’ so I asked the band leader, ‘Are all the members only sons?’ He replied that he’s the only son in their group, and that the other three have siblings.

Still on the subject of faulty modification, a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Miss Mae asked this question: To be grammatically aboveboard, therefore, lawyers should write: “All the parties are ordered to submit their respective memoranda” or “All the parties are ordered to submit their respective memorandums.” I’ll go as far as saying that if the many court decisions you’ve read consistently used the singular “memorandum” premodified by “respective,” the justices or judges who wrote them had been grammatically wrong all these years. Send us feedback about these examples.It is therefore grammatically faulty for the singular “memorandum” to be preceded by “respective.” On the other hand, the plural “memoranda” and its plural variant “memorandums” can both be premodified by “respective.” These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'memorandum.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec.
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2023 During a press event Monday, Bronson outlined efforts to add capacity to the snow removal system by bringing on extra plow drivers by coordinating among various union groups and a memorandum of agreement with the Anchorage School District that would put their equipment on municipal streets.

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Department of Energy memorandum that brought together national laboratories, state and local governments, utilities, and private companies to explore how to incorporate bi-directional charging into energy infrastructure. 2023 The collaboration grew out of each company taking part last year in a U.S. Senate Finance Committee demanding oversight into the church's finances. 2023 Earlier this month, the 2019 whistleblower, a former Ensign Peak investment manager named David Nielsen, submitted a 90-page memorandum to the U.S. 2023 Xi and Putin signed a handful of modest economic agreements and memoranda of understanding, blandly endorsed China's 12-point outline for peace in Ukraine. 2023 Dean Martinez’s memorandum is substantively superb on the merits. Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023 Currently, under a 2001 memorandum of understanding with the state of Florida, Disney is required to report injuries on rides quarterly and deaths immediately. Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 26 Apr. Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, Instead, Wahi now is asking for a sentence similar to his brother’s, according to a memorandum filed Monday. Recent Examples on the Web Joan Floyd and Donald Gresham, two of three plaintiffs appealing a lawsuit to nullify the memorandum, attended Monday’s event.
