[Vocabulary] unanimously decided

[Oceanlike]

I'm using different word classes to write sentences. It feels like my sentence below is incorrect somehow. What is wrong with it?

- Liam's appointment to the new position was unanimously decided by the board. (deliberately used "appointment" instead of its verb form)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I'm using different word classes to write sentences. It feels like my sentence below is incorrect somehow. What is wrong with it?

- Liam's appointment to the new position was unanimously decided by the board. (I deliberately used "appointment" instead of its verb form.)

Appointment is fine, but what the board decided is not clear. To make it clear, use either accepted or rejected — not decided.

 

[Oceanlike]

Appointment is fine, but what the board decided is not clear.

It is Liam's appointment to the new position that was decided. Sorry, I don't quite understand what you said.

 

[GoesStation]

Did the board decide to accept him or reject him?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It is Liam's appointment to the new position that was decided. Sorry, I don't quite understand what you said.

What did the board decide? Did it accept his appointment? Did they reject it? You said the board made a decision, but you didn't say what the decision was.

If you said accepted or rejected instead of decided, that would tell us what the board decided.

 

[Oceanlike]

I thought "Liam's appointment to the new position"....."was unanimously decided by the board." has 2 parts:

(1) A decision was made by the board
(2) Decision was to appoint Liam to the new position

I still don't understand why the original sentence failed to express what decision was made by the board. If someone's appointment to a position was decided by the board, isn't that a decision made by the board to "accept" that person to a position?

 

[Rover_KE]

It sounded to me that Liam had been appointed.