Wait, Await and Expect
Incorrect: I am waiting Alan.
Correct: I am waiting for/awaiting Alan.
Incorrect: We are waiting for a cold weather.
Correct : We are expecting a cold weather.
Note : If you await (it is a transitive verb) or wait for a person to come or something to happen, you arrange your timetable or actions so that you are ready, perhaps staying still and doing nothing else but wait. But if you expect someone or something, you think that they will come or that will happen, but you will probably not stay still because of this and may not even make special arrangements. Besides, waiting is a sort of activity but expecting is a state of mind.
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