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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Are these sentences grammatically correct?

Upon receipt of salary slip for the last month, we noticed that the salary issued for Mr. Alex was undercalculated. Since his rejoining date was on 27-11-2012, you must be included these 3 days in his last month salary, but it was not added, so please arrange to pay this shortfall immediately.
  

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Anonymous Upon receipt of salary slip for the last month, we noticed that the salary issued for Mr. Alex was undercalculated. Since his rejoining date was on 27-11-2012, you must be included these 3 days in his last month salary, but it was not added, so please arrange to pay this shortfall immediately.

— Leemiguel

  • Anonymous Upon receipt of salary slip for the last month, we noticed that the salary issued for Mr.
  • Alex was undercalculated.
  • Since his rejoining date was on 27-11-2012, you must be included these 3 days in his last month salary, but it was not added, so please arrange to pay this shortfall immediately.
  • It would read better this way: "Upon receipt of the salary slip for last month, we noticed that the salary issued for Mr.
  • Alex had been undercalculated.
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AnonymousUpon receipt of salary slip for the last month, we noticed that the salary issued for Mr. Alex was undercalculated. Since his rejoining date was on 27-11-2012, you must be included these 3 days in his last month salary, but it was not added, so please arrange to pay this shortfall immediately.
It would read better this way: "Upon receipt of the salary
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leemiguel you must include those 3 days' pay in his last month's salary, however, it had not been added,
Hi leemiguel,

I like your rewrite, but these are two independent clauses, and require either a conjunction, a semicolon, or a full stop between.
What we have now is, I believe, a "comma splice." ("However" is not a conjunction, if I'm not mist
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Now that I am reading through what I have written once again, I agree with you. I should have put in a semi-colon.
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