matter of confusion from a native speaker: word order

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matter of confusion from a native speaker: word order

memthefirst

Why don�t we neglect our colleagues and tend to show the proposal as just ours.Selfishness!!!

16 Dec 2008

Zora

THAT would work too!

16 Dec 2008

douglas

Proper is "my colleagues� and my..." but you do run into the potentila misunderstanding of having two proposals. You could try "Our proposal (my colleagues� and mine)..."

12 Jan 2009

Jayho

If there was only one proposal then write our proposal or the proposal.

11 Feb 2009

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