The programme aims to 'silence' the potential triggers of violent reactions. IGI Global, Language Arts & Disciplines.) ( Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution, Normore, Anthony H. This chapter aims to examine engineering students' communication competence.
In 1841, the ladies involved with the Repository may very well have seen their repository as a collective capable of group intention however, it is unlikely that the factories mentioned in 1903 were regarded as individual or collective human agents capable of having intentions.Ī quick look at available formal use in contemporary literature supports the claim that 'aims to' is used frequently with subjects that are neither individual nor collective human agents: July 318/1 Each factory aimed to add barrel works as soon as able.Īlthough these senses are culled from the popular press, they suggest a movement away from purely colloquial use additionally, the contemporary dictionaries I checked do not stipulate the meaning cited is colloquial in contemporary use. 7/2 The Repository will aim to entertain as well as instruct.ġ903 McClure's Mag. While this (latter) meaning of "to intend, to mean" (part, but not the whole of, meaning 7a) is expressly colloquial (thus informal), it may be that the interpretation supported by senses from 18 refers to the general meaning given in the main definition (7), that is, 'aim' is used without a colloquial flavor with reference to an object or desired outcome:ġ841 Ladies' Repository Jan. Also simply: to intend, to mean (formerly chiefly Eng.
To have (something) as an object, intention, or desired outcome to be determined upon to seek to achieve or obtain.Ī. While a project cannot have a literal intention, it may have an object or a desired outcome, and so this definition applies:ħ.
Writing style, where it deserves comment, rather than it toĬonform with yours, I don't think your 'correction' is supportable. I sympathize with your feeling but, especially given your expressed preference for only commenting on
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