a question on English?

Question

I was wondering how to write this idea properly. the idea is

---Contracts belonging to different clients can have the same contract numbers.--

I worte:

For a business client all of its contracts must have unique numbers. However, two different clients can for each of them have a contract which has the same number.

Is the above sentence correct and does it express the idea???????

I am not sure if I have wiritten it correctly, I

Could you help? I found somtimes English is difficult! indeed.

Thanks

Answer 1

For a business client, all of its contracts must have unique numbers. However, two different clients can each have contracts with the same number.

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Notice the comma. I deleted a lot, hopefully you can learn something from this =)

Answer 2

With respect to your sentence: 1) It is unintelligible, I have no idea what you mean. It doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to your "idea" (the previous sentence). 2) More specifically, if different clients can have the same contract number, then the contract numbers aren't unique.

With respect to your "idea": if different clients can have the same contract numbers, how do you tell them apart, i.e. how does the business keep straight what business it's doing with which client?

You need to concoct an example: make up some clients (Bill, Fred, Joe, etc.) and some contracts (build trucks, deliver fruit, brew beer, etc.) and use numbers to differentiate between Bill's truck contract, Bill's fruit contract, Fred's fruit contract, Fred's beer contract, etc. to illustrate what you mean by same client different contract numbers (or is that different clients same contract numbers?).

Answer 3

"All business clients' contracts must have different numbers. However, it is possible for two different clients' contracts to have the same number."

You may want to explain under what circumstances the clients' contracts can share a number,(like if one of them is expired or they are in two different departments), for additional clarity.
Also, I put the apostrophe after the s in "clients" because it's somehow more indicative of representing two separate entities, while remaining gramatically correct. You could still put it before the s like most people do.

Answer 4

All client contracts must have unique numbers. Two separate clients are allowed to share a contract number.
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The FIRST answer is good. I was confused as well... hope this is what you want!

As a side note, your punctuation is a bit off. I know it's hard to learn. I'm glad that you care to try!

Answer 5

One number can be used for contracts belonging to different clients.

*I am afraid your sentence is a bit wordy and convoluted.

Answer 6

No. I'm not certain what you should say. Personally I think it is mistake to use the same number for more than one client.

Answer 7

try to rewrite what you want clearly