ADM.1:4.2 - Separate the subjects hidden by the label

For each completion or failure statement, ask what happened to what. “The trip succeeded” could concern the journey, the negotiating work, the administrative case or the records supporting expense settlement. State the relevant subject and its result before combining the statements.

Use a short comparison when several meanings are active. Different subjects may have an enabling relation, a contribution relation or some other connection. Determine that connection from the actual work. If the statements instead concern one event from different participants’ positions, use ADM.4 to preserve their correct correspondence.

When an operations account is genuinely unclear about cases, work, resources or descriptions, OPS.3 supplies those distinctions. When several selected structures change the decision, use C.32.MWA. A routine enabling question does not require either inquiry to be repeated.