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Wed 22 Sep, 2004 10:46 pm
By yesterday afternoon, the preparing works for the festival from the steward groups -- communications and liaison, activity, propaganda, security, logistics and reception -- are all ready.
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(1) A steward group (or I'd call it as "a working group") here means:
If the group is responsible for the work of communications of the festival, I call the group as "the communications steward group'. By analogy, If the group is responsible for the work of propaganda of the festival, I'd call it as "the propaganda steward group", etc.
Now there are 6 steward groups:
communications and liaison, activity, propaganda, security, logistics and reception.
So I express this as:
the steward groups -- communications and liaison, activity, propaganda, security, logistics and reception
Is it acceptable?
(2) These groups have to do preparing works for the festival, and now the works are all ready, so I wrote:
the preparing works for the festival from the steward groups -- communications and liaison, activity, propaganda, security, logistics and reception -- are all ready.
Does it work?
Hi Oristar. We would just call them 'committees', I think:
"By yesterday afternoon, the preparations for the festival by the committees -- communications and liaison, activity, propaganda, security, logistics and reception -- were all ready."
Very cool, MM.
I am just unfamiliar with such usage of the committee. Because a committee can be very big that can govern a nation at large! For example: Central Committee of National Military Forces.
Yes, our committees are a little smaller-- usually just groups of members of an organization, club, institution, or company charged with different responsibilities... though a Senate Investigating Committee can be rather imposing.
Good. I've learned a new usage of the word committee.
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