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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence correct?

"Last week Mrs. X indicated that she had a failed initial attempt to reach my references."

I feel like it's missing a comma
  

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Last week Mrs. X indicated that she had failed in an initial attempt to contact my references .

— Mister Micawber

  • Last week Mrs.
  • X indicated that she had failed in an initial attempt to contact my references .
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Last week Mrs. X indicated that she had failed in an initial attempt to contact my references.
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Anonymous"Last week Mrs. X indicated that she had a failed initial attempt to reach my references." I feel like it's missing a comma
The sentence is correct without the comma. (Where would you propose to put one?)

Edit. MrM has given us a version with much better style.
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