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We have only now made an evaluation report of the contractor’s performance due to the fact that the contractor submitted their final report only last week.
2007-11-19 15:36:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
We have only now made an evaluation of the contractor’s performance, due to the fact that the contractor's final report was submitted only last week.
And just avoid all of that 'their, his, her' debate.
2007-11-19 19:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by treebird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's too much verbiage. It makes the sentence much less effective than this shorter version:
"We have evaluated the contractor's performance only recently, as the contractor submitted his final report last week."
2007-11-19 23:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Boots McGraw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"... the contractor submitted their final report ..." should be: the contractor submitted ITS final report. That one is definitely a grammatical error.
(His or her could also be correct, but because you used "their" I'm assuming that the contractor is a corporation or some kind of business entity.)
Consider changing "due to the fact that" to "because." It's simpler.
2007-11-19 23:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by the 13th juror 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason we have delayed making an evalutation report of the contractor's performance is that the contractor submitted his final report only last week.
I have taken liberties in rewritting your sentence. Contractor, being singular, should take either HIS or HER but not THEIR.
Note that I correctly have stated THE REASON...IS THAT... and not stated the commonly used but incorrect THE REASON...IS BECAUSE.
2007-11-19 23:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by dnldslk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"due to the fact that the CONTRACTOR submitted THEIR final report only last week." If I'm reading the statement correctly, the "final report" is the contractor's. That means that the pronoun "their" should be "his" or "her" since contractor is singular.
2007-11-19 23:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by Kir S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We recently evaluated the contractor's performance based upon receipt of their final report.
2007-11-19 23:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by red riter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks grammatically correct to me. I suggest that you change the last "only" in the sentence to the word "just".
2007-11-19 23:40:06 · answer #7 · answered by NH Guy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd put a comma after performance.
2007-11-19 23:53:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
contractor's shouldn't have an apostrophe there
2007-11-19 23:49:22 · answer #9 · answered by Amy S 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋