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- word choice - when to use Wait and when to use await? - English . . .
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- A word for waiting for a reply - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Inbound > Open > Pending > Awaiting reply > Ready > Closed I'd like to use single-words, so the one that sticks out like a sore thumb is "Awaiting reply" I obviously can't use "Pending" because that's already in use And "Awaiting" is too similar to "Pending" Is there a word for "waiting for a reply"?
- Waiting for or Awaiting for? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
Although "waiting for" is acceptable, "awaiting for" is not because "await" means "wait for" Writing "await for" would be redundant When sending letters by mail, you likely want to be as formal as possible "Kindly awaiting your approval" would fit this purpose
- Is it correct to write Awaiting to welcome you in invitation?
the verb "to await" is followed by a noun or nominal group phrase and not a non-finite verb Grammatically, it would be "awaiting your welcome" but this changes the meaning to the other person welcoming you!
- If pending is a preposition, why not awaiting and remaining
Katie held her breath, awaiting the awful news We stole one weekend together, remaining in New York, before answering a summons to join the others in Massachusetts According to the officially compiled dictionaries: Pending is an adjective as well as preposition Remaining and awaiting are both adjectives Why are remaining and awaiting not
- Is the phrase awaiting customer bad English?
"Awaiting customer" is perfectly correct as such However, await implies waiting for someone who is not yet there In the setup you describe, the customer is already there, and indeed he was the one to raise the issue in the first place So you awaiting his reaction, but no longer himself
- Is there an English word for awaiting approval?
@msanford: I said might, being well aware of the differences which I cared not to pollute the comment thread with by elaborating all possible angles, but was still willing to offer an option; the idea was that if the 'states' are in code, then 'judged and declined' would have its own state
- How to use wait and await at the end of sentences
I am awaiting your specific reply for this question They are awaiting the birth of their first baby On the other hand, wait in most of the examples does not require an object I have been waiting for hours Yet, I could not find good examples explaining which of these are proper in cases where wait and await are not used us verbs Here is my
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