What will "He always wears a suit to work. " be in predicate language?

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$\forall x[H_x \supset W_x ]$ which translates as "For all x, if x is he (goes to work) then he wears suit to work" (Bold ones are the symbols I pickedup)

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That's a pretty weird symbolization key:

$Hx$: $x$ is 'He'

$Wx$: $x$ always wears a suit to work

Indeed, as such, your logic sentence, when translated back into English, would be: 'All that are 'he' always wear a suit to work'

I would say: if the 'he' is some specific person, then use an individual constant for this person, say $h$

Then, you can use the following more 'natural' predicates:

$Wx$: $x$ goes to work

$Sx$: $x$ wears a suit

And with that, we can symbolize the sentence as:

$Wh \to Sh$

Now, this seems to be missing the 'always' part though ... but note that that is about points in time, not people

So, to add that in, you can do:

$Wxt$: $x$ goes to work at time $t$

$Sxt$: $x$ wears a suit at time $t$

And then the translation is:

$\forall t (Wht \to Sht)$

(I'll forgo making a remark on what that last translation looks like ...)