There's no such word as completiness. It's completeness.
You need to give us an example of a full sentence in which you want to use these phrases.
Rover
Results 1 to 7 of 7
- 30-Mar-2011, 06:03 #1
Newbie
- Join Date
- Mar 2011
- Posts
- 4
"Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" What is the correct form?
"Correct completion" (of a task)
or
"Correct completiness" (of a task)
- 30-Mar-2011, 09:10 #2
Moderator
- Join Date
- Jun 2010
- Posts
- 9,249
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness"
- 31-Mar-2011, 01:07 #3
Newbie
- Join Date
- Mar 2011
- Posts
- 4
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" Examples:
1) Your answer will help me with the correct completion of my task.
OR
2) Your answer will help me with the correct completeness of my task.
Which one is correct? 1) or 2)?
- 31-Mar-2011, 03:13 #4
Moderator
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Posts
- 14,299
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" Your answer will help me correctly complete my task.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
- 31-Mar-2011, 04:07 #5
Key Member
- Join Date
- Mar 2011
- Posts
- 2,113
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" Completeness can never be modified by correct.
- 31-Mar-2011, 09:37 #6
Editor, UsingEnglish.com
- Join Date
- Nov 2002
- Posts
- 38,658
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" Or
Originally Posted by Barb_D 
Your answer will help me complete my task correctly.
- 31-Mar-2011, 13:17 #7
Newbie
- Join Date
- Mar 2011
- Posts
- 4
Re: "Correct completion" or "Correct completiness" Why not? Originally Posted by freezeframe
Similar Threads
-
Defining "Street," "Road," "Avenue," "Boulevard"
By ahumphreys in forum Ask a TeacherReplies: 3Last Post: 31-Dec-2010, 07:14 -
A question regarding "tags", which "tag" is correct?
By pinbong in forum Ask a TeacherReplies: 1Last Post: 17-Nov-2010, 13:23 -
[Vocabulary] How do you pronounce "Cotton", "Button", "Britain", "Manhattan"...
By Williamyh in forum Pronunciation and PhoneticsReplies: 3Last Post: 24-Dec-2009, 08:36 -
expressions like "to your aid" "at their orders" "to my detriment" "at sb's risk"
By sympathy in forum Ask a TeacherReplies: 2Last Post: 08-Sep-2008, 08:27 -
confusing words "expressed" or "express" and "named" or"names"
By Dawood Usmani in forum Ask a TeacherReplies: 3Last Post: 26-Oct-2007, 19:33
Posting Permissions
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.1