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- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
More important than "formed" or "founded" in this specific example is this: "The supermarket where I work opened in May, 1999 " When or how it was formed or founded is generally irrelevant, unless you are legally referring to when the organization that owns and operates the supermarket was incorporated, in which case that is the correct term to use In the non-profit sector, I would say that
- What is the difference between found and establish?
Related: Founded; founding Phrase founding fathers with reference to the creators of the American republic is attested from 1916 It is focused on the ‘bottom, base’
- Whats the difference between established and founded
Ngram indicates was established to is more prevalent than was founded to It might be argued that founded inclines slightly more towards the (corporate) structure and established slightly more towards the principles, but it's a fine line
- abbreviations - Which (if any) is correct: est. , estd. , or estd . . .
9 A business founded (or a building built or a monument dedicated) in 1854 might have a sign or plaque reading "EST'D 1854" or "EST 1854" or "ESTD 1854", or some other combination I haven't seen or heard of What is the correct way to abbreviate the word "established" in this manner? What is the correct way to capitalize this abbreviation?
- Co-Founder, Co-founder, or cofounder? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
All are acceptable, so you should follow your judgement British usage generally favours rather more hyphens than American usage; I'd use co-founder since cofounder doesn't look all that natural I'd omit the hyphen in landowner, though, so it depends Longman and Collins tend to prefer unhyphenated while Chambers, predictably, insists on the hyphenated form If you're using the word in a
- Newly found vs. New Found - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the grammatically correct way to say the following sentence? "I have come away with a new found respect for the author " or "I have come away with a newly found respect for the author
- How to say to found a new company over a previous one?
I was just wondering how to state a company which exists today was actually "founded over" a previous one i e If X Company was sold in 1950 and new owner of the company founded a new company called Y Company by also changing the mission, vision, objectives and working field of the company, what would go in the following sentence?:
- grammar - Use of found and found to be - English Language Usage . . .
Found+adjective is a form often used in expressions like "found guilty" or "found wanting" (probably because findings are the outcomes of inquiries, trials, inquests and audits) "Found fixed" is therefore a little bit odd In your example 'determined to have been fixed corrected' is more idiomatic and also removes some ambiguity about "fixed" (which also means unvarying)
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