Is + ing or had + past participle?

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Dear xxx,Further to below mentioned, the PTI is already pass, append here with our invoice for your further action. Will send you the PTI report once receive it from our technician.OrDear xxx,Further to below mentioned, the PTI had already passed, appending here with our invoice for your further action. Will be sending you the PTI report once receive it from our technician.These sentences are correct?

Mr Wordy · Accepted Answer

Dear ***,

Further to the <whatever it is> below ~~mentioned~~, the PTI has already passed,

I'm guessing that the "PTI" is some sort of inspection. If so, then this wording is in my opinion not quite correct. The inspection does not itself "pass"; instead, whatever it is that's being tested passes the inspection. However, people will know what you mean.

appending here with our invoice for your further action.

This doesn't follow grammatically, and it's unclear what is being appended to what.

I/we will be sending you the PTI report once I/we receive it from our technician.

Happyhour123 · Answer

Further to these two Reefer Containers below. Yes, is inspection.

Happyhour123 · Answer

In this sentence how come i can't use " had already passed" ? ( because these PTI may did it yesterday or last few days)

Mr Wordy · Answer

happyhour123Further to these two Reefer Containers below.

"Further to ... below" means that you are writing something in addition to something else that you've written further down the page (or on a subsequent page). For example, you might write:

Further to the itemised list below, blah blah ...
...
...

[Itemised list here]

"Further to these two Reefer Containers below" is not quite right, because the containers themselves are not something that you've written (you might have written about them, but that's different).

You might mean "With reference to the two reefer containers...", or, if you have written about them below, you could say "With reference to the two reefer containers mentioned below...". Without seeing the full content of what you're sending, it's hard to be sure.

Happyhour123 · Answer

okie, thanks and noted. How about this question : "In this sentence how come i can't use " had already passed" ? ( because these PTI may did it yesterday or last few days)"

Mr Wordy · Answer

happyhour123In this sentence how come i can't use " had already passed" ? ( because these PTI may did it yesterday or last few days)

"had already passed" takes you further back in time, before a time that is itself already in the past. For example, you could say:

"When I spoke to you last week, the PTI had already passed..." (as I noted before, this wording is strictly not quite right to me, but for these purposes I'll ignore that).

In this case, "I spoke to you last week" places us in the past, and "had already passed" then means that the PTI passed some time before you spoke.

But if you just want to say that it happened some time in the past before now -- maybe yesterday or in the last few days -- then "has passed" is correct.

Happyhour123 · Answer

Thanks for the reply :-)

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