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Jun 7, 2011 · Jun 7, 2011. #2. Agent is a semantic notion, and depends on what's happening in the world: if a dog bites a man, the dog is the agent of the biting, however you express that in language. Subject is a syntactic notion. In English the subject normally comes first, the verb agrees with it, it can occur with intransitive verbs, and so on: there are ...
Apr 5, 2016 · Senior Member. I never know where to put "by+agent" in a sentence in the passive voice. The maid cleaned our hotel room this morning. Is one of the sentences below a better choice? 1) Our hotel room was cleaned by the maid this morning. 2) Our hotel room was cleaned this morning by the maid. Does it make any difference where I put "by+agent ...
Aug 7, 2008 · A practitioner shall act in professional engineering matters for each employer as a faithful agent or trustee and shall regard as confidential information obtained by the practitioner as to the business affairs, technical methods or processes of an employer and avoid or disclose a conflict of interest that might influence the practitioner's actions or judgment.
May 11, 2021 · British English (Sussex) May 11, 2021. #4. The agent can be omitted in the passive version if it sounds too awkward. I don't think it's too awkward in this case, and the meaning is the same. There's an ambiguity in all versions of the sentence, active and passive, with and without an agent: We aren't told whether she tidies her room or not.
Mar 28, 2019 · Perhaps "flatting agent" is more widespread than I thought it might be. The people who first took up this version must have thought that "flatten" was inadequate for some reason. Maybe they thought it was too heavily associated with crushing things to be useful as an adjective or verb with a different meaning.
Mar 20, 2010 · SLEEPER AGENT: In fiction, particularly science fiction, sleeper agents fall into two categories: - The first is an extension of the real world sleeper agent where an enemy agent is substituted for a person already in a trusted position. - The second and more common category involve people who have been subjected to mind control techniques ...
Oct 22, 2021 · Oct 22, 2021. #4. In American government an agency is an organized part of the government that handles some specific area of responsibility. A department is also a part of the government that handles a certain area of responsibility. But in general, a department has a bigger area of responsibility than an agency.
Apr 22, 2024 · OK. from what I see on the Internet, this is a hierarchical level (the step after "agent administratif"). You might as well use "administrative officer" without entering into these details. I agree that "skilled" does not fit here, but "specialised" is misleading too.
Mar 17, 2009 · Nov 10, 2014. #8. Both are correct; it depends on what you mean. A travel agent is a person. A travel agency is a business/office. Usually a number of travel agents work at a travel agency. In my family, we like a certain travel agency. We ask for a particular travel agent there, but if that person is not available, we see someone else.
May 30, 2008 · Senior Member. Miami, Florida USA. English - US. May 29, 2008. #1. It's at the end of a copy of a birth certificate, where the issuer (in this case the "officier de l'Etat Civil) signs their name. Maybe "Executive Agent", "Delegated Agent"?
