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#2 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 15:57 pm please welcome back |
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No :) _________________ If you're going through hell... keep going. |
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#3 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 15:58 pm please welcome back |
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This was addressed to the audience (and not to Honduras) - will you please greet the return of Honduras (some team's name I suppose) onto the field.
"Will you please be welcome back…" sounds distinctly odd. _________________ If you're going through hell... keep going. |
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#4 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 15:58 pm please welcome back |
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(Honduras, to the best of my knowledge, is a country.) Then “Will you please welcome back in the ring, Mike Tyson."—equally valid? |
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#5 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 16:31 pm please welcome back |
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Well, if you consider: “You’re welcome back onto the pitch, Honduras." and then turn it into more polite (to the excess?) "Will you please be welcome back onto the pitch, Honduras." then it doesn’t sound that odd to me.
Worded, “Will you please welcome Honduras back onto the pitch” would remove all doubts, but the author found the way how to knock me for six. |
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#6 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 16:46 pm please welcome back |
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Eugene2114 wrote: | (Honduras, to the best of my knowledge, is a country.) Then “Will you please welcome back in the ring, Mike Tyson."—equally valid? |
(Well, yes, but when a team represents a certain country...? It is usual to refer to that team using the name of the country it represents, isn't it?)
I would interpret "Will you please welcome back in the ring, Mike Tyson" in the same way (request addressed to the audience).
Eugene2114 wrote: | ... "Will you please be welcome back onto the pitch, Honduras." then it doesn’t sound that odd to me. |
Still sounds off to me. Perhaps someone else will weigh in on this. :) _________________ If you're going through hell... keep going. |
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#7 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 18:02 pm please welcome back |
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Cristina is 100% correct in her answer. This is addressed to the audience, and "Will you please be welcome ..." doesn't really make any sense.
Maybe "Will you please welcome Honduras back onto the pitch." might be a little more clear, but consider the scene at a stadium full of Honduras supporters:
"Will you please welcome back onto the pitch ... {pause for effect} ... Honduras!!! " {crowd goes wild} |
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#8 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 19:40 pm please welcome back |
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Just for clarification:‘"Will you please welcome back onto the pitch, Honduras." That would be a no then as 80,000 fans jeer the visitors back onto the Stadium Australia stage.’—that was the scene. Not–so-amiable an atmosphere will you agree. And then the punctuation and wording that misled me too: couldn’t he put it like, "Will you please welcome them back onto the pitch, Honduras."?
In short, I haven’t come out the other side yet. |
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#9 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 21:10 pm please welcome back |
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Well, in that case, maybe if they said "Will you please welcome Honduras back onto the pitch?", the boos that would immediately follow the mention of "Honduras" would drown out the rest of the sentence.
As for your, "Will you please welcome them back onto the pitch, Honduras?" that sounds like you are asking Honduras to welcome some other group onto the field. |
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#10 (permalink) Wed Nov 15, 2017 21:46 pm please welcome back |
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A suitable conclusion, I think. _________________ English as a Second Language You can read my ESL story Present Simple |
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