When requesting after reading someone’s request?
When I am saying:
Upon request, the homework has to be handed in to the teacher.
Does this imply, that it is the teacher who is asking? Can it also be the director of a film?
If in the above sentence it is not necessarily the teacher, can I then say: “The homework has
to be handed in to the teacher upon his/her request”.
If this clearly states that the teacher requests, is this something which is said? What happened to you recently?
Definition of by/on/upon request ( M-W )
: by asking for something usually in a formal way
Catalogs are available by/on/upon request.
If a user uses the word “Upon request, the homework has to be handed in to the teacher”, then his homework becomes the homework. Who asks the questions? Of course, it is the teacher, as per the context. It is a teacher, to the school admin. Is there anything oblivious in the experience of
being in an interview?
The agent
issuing the request (as Macmillan on request). As macmillan on request. used for saying that something
will be done if someone asks for it shows, the agent is not specified.
What is the temporal reading for a
Farlex?
So pragmatically, the most obvious candidate (the teacher here) would be assumed and should be intended.
‘At
his request’ sounds more natural than ‘on his request’, but suggests ‘if he asks for it’ rather than ‘when he asks’.
Please see Chaz’s new answer in the forum. Wordreference, where the temporal sense that may well well be better indicated by ‘on his request’ is mentioned. It is also said to sound a little a little unusual in the Wordreference Forum thread, though not
unacceptable.
