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Chick Loser
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:41 am
Post subject: refunded by vs. refunded from, which one is correct, and whi |
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Hello,
:-)
Suppose Joe buys a cup of coffee from Jane. Joe doesn't like it etc...
The question is: given that Jane gives Joe a refund, is the cup of coffee
1. refunded by Jane
or
2. refunded from Jane's Company
or are both correct? What is the difference between "refunded by"
and "refunded from". Is it a matter of person vs. company or what?
Or are they 100% interchangeable. Or is one of them plain wrong.
I just can't make it out.
Thank you for your feedback,
and sorry for my bad English,
C.L.
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Matti Lamprhey
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:10 pm
Post subject: Re: refunded by vs. refunded from, which one is correct, and |
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"Chick Loser" <chickloser@hotmail.com> wrote...
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Suppose Joe buys a cup of coffee from Jane. Joe doesn't like it etc...
The question is: given that Jane gives Joe a refund, is the cup of
coffee
1. refunded by Jane
or
2. refunded from Jane's Company
or are both correct? What is the difference between "refunded by"
and "refunded from". Is it a matter of person vs. company or what?
Or are they 100% interchangeable. Or is one of them plain wrong.
I just can't make it out.
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"Refunded by" is correct here (better: it's the COST of the cup of
coffee which is refunded).
You could say that the cost of the cup of coffee was refunded by Jane
from the cash-till.
Matti |
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Michael DeBusk
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:52 pm
Post subject: Re: refunded by vs. refunded from, which one is correct, and |
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On 18 Oct 2004 21:41:55 -0700, Chick Loser <chickloser@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | The question is: given that Jane gives Joe a refund, is the cup of
coffee
1. refunded by Jane
or
2. refunded from Jane's Company
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The cup of coffee isn't refunded. The money is refunded (to Joe, by
Jane, from Jane's company); the coffee is returned (by Joe, to Jane).
The passive voice is problematic here. Shift to active and you'll see:
Joe returned the coffee to Jane, and Jane refunded Joe's money.
--
Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
Did he update http://home.earthlink.net/~debu4335/ yet?
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