A Malaysian mystery is this \u201cI am happy to\nwork for your respective firm\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The word, \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> according to the Oxford Advanced Learner\u2019s Dictionary\nis an adjective to be used before a noun. It is defined as, \u201cbelonging or\nrelating separately to each of the people or things already mentioned\u201d. In\nother words, \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> brings the\nmeaning of making a comparison to each of the separate people or things\nmentioned earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, the word, \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> should only be used when there is more than one party\nbeing referred to. It should not be used when one is referring to a party\nalone. For example, Adam and Alice are colleagues working in the same office.\nThey rush back to their respective <\/strong>homes\nafter work. Here, I\u2019m relating to Adam and Alice who are working in the same\nplace but they will go separate ways after work. The word \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> helps to bring out the comparison here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One mistake to be avoided while using the\nword \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> is, do not add in the\nword \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> when you are only\nreferring to one party alone. An example would be, \u201cIt is a great honour to pay\na visit to Anthony\u2019s house\u201d. It would be wrong to add in the word \u2018Respective\u2019\ninto the sentence, \u201cIt is a great honour to pay a visit to Anthony\u2019s Writers make this common mistake in the\nsentence, \u201cIt is a great honour to pay a visit to Anthony\u2019s Confusion may arise because of both \u2018Respective\u2019 <\/strong>and \u2018Respectable\u2019\nare adjectives and their root word is \u2018Respect\u2019<\/strong>.\nHowever, while \u2018Respectable\u2019 brings about the same meaning as the root\nword, which also means eminent and distinguished; \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> on the other hands relating to people and things,\nwhich means relative and comparative. Both these words have different meaning\nalthough originating from the same root word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lastly, use the word, \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong> only when you are relating to more than one party. Avoid using it while you are referring only to one party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ng An Ni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Malaysian mystery is this \u201cI am happy to work for your respective firm\u2026\u201d The word, \u2018Respective\u2019 according to the Oxford Advanced Learner\u2019s Dictionary is an adjective to be used before a noun. It is defined as, \u201cbelonging or relating separately to each of the people or things already mentioned\u201d. In other words, \u2018Respective\u2019 brings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"featured_media":11556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexchanglaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}respective<\/s><\/strong> office\u201d. This is\nbecause I did not refer to other parties in the sentence. I\u2019m referring to\nAnthony alone. Thus, the word, \u2018Respective\u2019 should not be used here. <\/p>\n\n\n\nrespective<\/s><\/strong> office\u201d because they\nwanted to express the feeling of admiration towards people or things and often\nconfused with the word, \u2018Respectable\u2019. \u2018Respectable\u2019 is the\ncorrect word to replace the word \u2018Respective\u2019<\/strong>\nin the sentence, \u201cIt is a great honour to pay a visit to\nAnthony\u2019s respectable office\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n