correct verb to be used with “aim”
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is it correct to say to "meet aims"? I know we can say she fulfilled or achieved her aims , but can I also say " she met her aims"?
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Hello, welcome to ELU. Please provide the relevant research you've done with your question (e.g. definitions and useage of "aim" in similar contexts). Also, the first letter of "is" in your first question is not capitalized. Have a good day.
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Hello, welcome to ELU. Please provide the relevant research you've done with your question (e.g. definitions and useage of "aim" in similar contexts). Also, the first letter of "is" in your first question is not capitalized. Have a good day.
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aim is a verb and I am inclined to say further that it is first a verb and has later (perhaps recently) taken on the noun function of "goal." To me, "aim" as a noun, especially plural possessive, like her aims, smacks of buzzword neologism. But anyway.
If you take aim at a target and launch something or drive something or someone towards it [the target, or goal], you are either accurate and you hit your aim, or you are inaccurate and you miss. But it might be safe to just employ something along the lines of, "She achieved her goals" or "He met his target".
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Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
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I feel to some extent this is just a personal preference but to my ears 'she met her aims' would be an unusual construction for a native speaker of British English.
Perhaps the reason it sounds odd is that by definition an 'aim' is something you never actually meet. It's always ahead of you. I would say 'she achieved her ambitions', 'she met her targets', 'she fulfilled her plans', 'she attained her objectives', all those sound natural to me, but 'she met her aims' doesn't. However it isn't formally incorrect and if you did say it to me I would know exactly what you meant, so I wouldn't worry too much about it ;)
I would say 'she met her mother', 'she met her fate' and 'she met her match'. Those are all idiomatic and sound natural. I'm English living in England, others may differ on this one.
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"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
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I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
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aim is a verb and I am inclined to say further that it is first a verb and has later (perhaps recently) taken on the noun function of "goal." To me, "aim" as a noun, especially plural possessive, like her aims, smacks of buzzword neologism. But anyway.
If you take aim at a target and launch something or drive something or someone towards it [the target, or goal], you are either accurate and you hit your aim, or you are inaccurate and you miss. But it might be safe to just employ something along the lines of, "She achieved her goals" or "He met his target".
answered 2 days ago
Carly
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Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
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aim is a verb and I am inclined to say further that it is first a verb and has later (perhaps recently) taken on the noun function of "goal." To me, "aim" as a noun, especially plural possessive, like her aims, smacks of buzzword neologism. But anyway.
If you take aim at a target and launch something or drive something or someone towards it [the target, or goal], you are either accurate and you hit your aim, or you are inaccurate and you miss. But it might be safe to just employ something along the lines of, "She achieved her goals" or "He met his target".
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
1
Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
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aim is a verb and I am inclined to say further that it is first a verb and has later (perhaps recently) taken on the noun function of "goal." To me, "aim" as a noun, especially plural possessive, like her aims, smacks of buzzword neologism. But anyway.
If you take aim at a target and launch something or drive something or someone towards it [the target, or goal], you are either accurate and you hit your aim, or you are inaccurate and you miss. But it might be safe to just employ something along the lines of, "She achieved her goals" or "He met his target".
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
aim is a verb and I am inclined to say further that it is first a verb and has later (perhaps recently) taken on the noun function of "goal." To me, "aim" as a noun, especially plural possessive, like her aims, smacks of buzzword neologism. But anyway.
If you take aim at a target and launch something or drive something or someone towards it [the target, or goal], you are either accurate and you hit your aim, or you are inaccurate and you miss. But it might be safe to just employ something along the lines of, "She achieved her goals" or "He met his target".
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
answered 2 days ago
Carly
724111
724111
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Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
add a comment |
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Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
1
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Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
Aim has been a noun for a long time. HG Wells said of Sydney Webb (husband of Beatrice) that "his aim is rather persuasion than truth", in his "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934).
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
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I feel to some extent this is just a personal preference but to my ears 'she met her aims' would be an unusual construction for a native speaker of British English.
Perhaps the reason it sounds odd is that by definition an 'aim' is something you never actually meet. It's always ahead of you. I would say 'she achieved her ambitions', 'she met her targets', 'she fulfilled her plans', 'she attained her objectives', all those sound natural to me, but 'she met her aims' doesn't. However it isn't formally incorrect and if you did say it to me I would know exactly what you meant, so I wouldn't worry too much about it ;)
I would say 'she met her mother', 'she met her fate' and 'she met her match'. Those are all idiomatic and sound natural. I'm English living in England, others may differ on this one.
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"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
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I feel to some extent this is just a personal preference but to my ears 'she met her aims' would be an unusual construction for a native speaker of British English.
Perhaps the reason it sounds odd is that by definition an 'aim' is something you never actually meet. It's always ahead of you. I would say 'she achieved her ambitions', 'she met her targets', 'she fulfilled her plans', 'she attained her objectives', all those sound natural to me, but 'she met her aims' doesn't. However it isn't formally incorrect and if you did say it to me I would know exactly what you meant, so I wouldn't worry too much about it ;)
I would say 'she met her mother', 'she met her fate' and 'she met her match'. Those are all idiomatic and sound natural. I'm English living in England, others may differ on this one.
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"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
add a comment |
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I feel to some extent this is just a personal preference but to my ears 'she met her aims' would be an unusual construction for a native speaker of British English.
Perhaps the reason it sounds odd is that by definition an 'aim' is something you never actually meet. It's always ahead of you. I would say 'she achieved her ambitions', 'she met her targets', 'she fulfilled her plans', 'she attained her objectives', all those sound natural to me, but 'she met her aims' doesn't. However it isn't formally incorrect and if you did say it to me I would know exactly what you meant, so I wouldn't worry too much about it ;)
I would say 'she met her mother', 'she met her fate' and 'she met her match'. Those are all idiomatic and sound natural. I'm English living in England, others may differ on this one.
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I feel to some extent this is just a personal preference but to my ears 'she met her aims' would be an unusual construction for a native speaker of British English.
Perhaps the reason it sounds odd is that by definition an 'aim' is something you never actually meet. It's always ahead of you. I would say 'she achieved her ambitions', 'she met her targets', 'she fulfilled her plans', 'she attained her objectives', all those sound natural to me, but 'she met her aims' doesn't. However it isn't formally incorrect and if you did say it to me I would know exactly what you meant, so I wouldn't worry too much about it ;)
I would say 'she met her mother', 'she met her fate' and 'she met her match'. Those are all idiomatic and sound natural. I'm English living in England, others may differ on this one.
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"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
add a comment |
"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
"much of what Wagner was trying to achieve (for the moment, irrespective of whether he met his aims) was already in place" - (En) Corps Sonore: Towards a Feminist Ethics of the ‘Idea’ of Music in Recent French Thought - Sarah Hickmott, Merton College, University of Oxford - A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (2017)
– Michael Harvey
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
I wrote some of the clunkiest English ever written in my PhD thesis ;)
– Sprog
2 days ago
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