past tense

HI mancunian, and welcome to English Forums.

mancunian
"Thanks once again, your feedback had helped me a great deal."

or does this sound better? : "Thanks once again, your feedback helped me a great deal."

(the feedback i am writing about had an influence on my current work)

thanks

You've missed an option:

"Thanks

Hi Grammar Geek,
Thanks for swift answer and welcoming me to the community

Hi,

Just an aside - your two original options are examples of the "grammatical error" known as a "comma splice," in which the two separate sentences (GG's example) are joined together by a comma alone, instead of a comma and a conjunction. (Actually, in this case there's no appropriate conjunction, so you must use two separate sentences - or possibly a semi colon.)

- A.

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I corrected that by placing the period and the required capital letter to start the second sentence in bold. I don't see what you mean about my example showing them being joned by a comma.

Hi, GG. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean to give the impression that I was correcting your work. I meant to address my comment to the OP. I meant that your correction showed them correctly as two separate sentences.

I was just afraid he might have missed it, since you also included another correction at the same time, and didn't