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by nikhilgupta » Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:22 am
Wrong Sentence :

My boss is likely that she will take over the eastern division, even though she didn't ask for that division, rather the nothern division.

Corrected Sentence:

My boss is likely to take over the eastern division, even though she didn't ask for that division,but rather asked for the nothern division.

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Can we use "rather for northern division" instead of "rather asked for northern division" as it would be more precise
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by MBACenter » Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:05 am
nikhilgupta wrote:Wrong Sentence :

My boss is likely that she will take over the eastern division, even though she didn't ask for that division, rather the nothern division.

Corrected Sentence:

My boss is likely to take over the eastern division, even though she didn't ask for that division,but rather asked for the nothern division.

My Doubt
Can we use "rather for northern division" instead of "rather asked for northern division" as it would be more precise
It would not be more precise but more concise. :)

But no, you cannot, because you would cut the sentence off after the negated conjugated verb:

... she didn't ask for that division
.................. for the northern division

and thus will it sound as though she didn't ask for the northern division!

What WOULD be possible would be to write, My boss is likely to take over the eastern division, even though she asked not for that division,but rather for the nothern division.

Then we would have:

... asked not for that division
......... for the northern division
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