immediate available

[Tedwonny]

Believe it or not, sometimes, you knew the correct way of saying something but the more you see the incorrect way of saying something, the more uncertain you become and one day, you'll also say the wrong thing! This is so plaguing me!

Anyway,

I always thought that advertisements should say 'immediately available' [learnt from a teacher, adv modifying adj] but so many would say immediate available (meaning that you can start working straight away!)

which is correct really?

thanks

 

[Barb_D]

I have never seen "immediate available."Where are you seeing this with such frequency?

 

[emsr2d2]

I have never seen it either.

Immediately available.
Available immediately.
Immediate availability.

 

[Tedwonny]

Thanks everyone!

I've now returned to Hong Kong... and of course, HK English haha

That's why immersion helps a great deal because we need 'accurate' models of English:lol:

 

[BobK]

I have never seen it either.
...
Immediate availability.

:up: And in a table this could be 'immediate' in a column headed 'availabilty'. And because of technical writers' knee-jerk avoidance of abstract nouns, the column heading might be 'Available?' [This choice of wording might be favoured by practitioners of Robert Horn's 'Information Mapping' methodology.]

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[BobK]

I have never seen it either.
...
Immediate availability.

:up: And in a table this could be 'immediate' in a column headed 'availabilty'. And because of technical writers' knee-jerk avoidance of abstract nouns, the column heading might be 'Available?' [This choice of wording might be favoured by practitioners of Robert Horn's 'Information Mapping' methodology.]

b