receive or received to be used

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Could you pleae tell me which one is correct? Thank you very much.Please contact me upon receive the letterPlease contact me upon received the lettermattquestion

Likeguslee · Accepted Answer

Neither one. The correct sentence is

Please contact me upon receiving the letter

or

Please contact me upon the receipt of the letter

Nona the brit · Answer

Please contact me upon receipt of the letter (no the before receipt).

Aperisic · Answer

Mattquestion
Could you pleae tell me which one is correct?

Thank you very much.

Please contact me upon receive the letter

Please contact me upon received the letter

mattquestion

Other than what other people said to you here, it is equally possible

Please contact me upon the received letter.

Please contact me upon the letter received.

after upon you need a noun or something that serves as a noun. receive is a verb received as well (the past of receive)

Marius Hancu · Answer

AperisicOther than what other people said to you here, it is equally possible

Please contact me upon the received letter.

Please contact me upon the letter received.

after upon you need a noun or something that serves as a noun. receive is a verb received as well (the past of receive)

These seem strange, to me at least.

"upon the received letter"

doesn't score any hits at Yahoo and Google.

"upon the letter received"

only shows up in contexts related to "based upon the letter received," or similar.

Aperisic · Answer

Marius Hancu
Aperisic
Other than what other people said to you here, it is equally possible

Please contact me upon the received letter.

Please contact me upon the letter received.

after upon you need a noun or something that serves as a noun. receive is a verb received as well (the past of receive)

These seem strange, to me at least.

"upon the received letter"

doesn't score any hits at Yahoo and Google.

"upon the letter received"

only shows up in contexts related to "based upon the letter received," or similar.

Well, "upon the letter received" is toooo long a phrase to be searched. Try "upon the" better. But, you are right to some extent.

Please contact me upon the received letter.

might have the first understanding as

Please contact me based on the event of receiving the letter.

but equally

Please contact me after the received letter.

Please contact me upon the final phone call.

Please contact me upon the hotel exit.

Please contact me upon the movie.

BarbaraPA · Answer

I'm sorry, but the examples in the posting immediately above just do NOT work. (Please contact me upon the received letter, Please contact me after the received letter, Please contact me upon the movie, etc.) These are all non-standard usage, at least in American English.

As said already, use either:

Please contact me upon receiving the letter.

or

Please contact me upon receipt of the letter.

Nona the brit · Answer

Those 'upon' examples are not British useage either. If you change the word 'upon' for 'regarding' or 'about' and even in one or two cases 'on' then they are ok, but we don't use upon in this sense.

Aperisic · Answer

I am sorry as well:

Program certificates for individual students are mailed to the corporate contact upon the completion of the program.

A child with a secure attachment will show signs of distress when a parent leaves the room, and will seek comfort and contact upon the return of a parent.

Usually after upon you need a word that refers to a point in time or event: return, completion, but after upon you can have a pure noun. This is especially true with expressions like the last day, the first month...

In the above case I agree that the construction with receiving is the best choice but it is not the reason to disregard the other options.

Please contact me upon [the completion of] the final phone call.

Please contact me upon [reaching] the hotel exit.

Please contact me upon [the completion of] the movie.

The parliament will be dissolved upon the last day of September

In order upon not to be mixed with its other possible meanings the noun after upon should refer implicitly or explicitly to some event or happening.

Again I agree that [upon]+[pure noun] construction is rare but it is possible.

However,

I find it upon the wall.

is undefined, it is not clear what event the wall refers to, it sounds the same as

I find it on the wall.

I find it upon jumping over the wall.

is much better

I find it upon the movie.

is OK because the movie refers to the end of the movie. Of course the fact that upon is possible does not mean that it is preferable.

I mentioned it here only to complete the story.

Marius Hancu · Answer

AperisicPlease contact me upon [the completion of] the final phone call.
Please contact me upon [reaching] the hotel exit.

Please contact me upon [the completion of] the movie.

The parliament will be dissolved upon the last day of SeptemberThe above are perhaps OK (but, to me, only with the full text in []), but the ones you proposed about the received letter are not used in business and as such will only produce frowning or ridicule from your correspondents.

And don't tell me my searches were too long. Look here:

Hits at Yahoo:

1,270 for "upon receiving the letter" OK
97 for "upon the receipt of the letter" OK

"upon the received letter"
doesn't score any hits at Yahoo and Google. Yours, not OK.

"upon the letter received"
only shows up in contexts related to "based upon the letter received,"
or similar. Yours, not OK.

Aperisic · Answer

Marius Hancu
Hits at Yahoo:

1,270 for "upon receiving the letter" OK
97 for "upon the receipt of the letter" OK

"upon the received letter"
doesn't score any hits at Yahoo and Google. Yours, not OK.

"upon the letter received"
only shows up in contexts related to "based upon the letter received,"
or similar. Yours, not OK.

I wish I could understand why you are arguing about any further after I said

In the above case I agree that the construction with receiving is the best choice but it is not the reason to disregard the other options.

Of course the fact that upon is possible does not mean that it is preferable.

I mentioned it here only to complete the story.

As the construction on its own with the letter received is fine but because there is another one with receiving the letter which is better and more common the construction with the letter received is not preferable, but altogether possible.

The reason why it is possible is as explained: after upon you can use a word or group of words that refer to some event.

In this particular occasion, again, as the construction on its own with the letter received is fine but because there is another one with receiving the letter, which is better and more common, the construction with the letter received is not preferable, but altogether possible.

His university has ended upon the failure to meet the grade point.

Because upon receiving the letter is far more common does not mean that the construction with upon the letter received is wrong. There is not a single reason to dismiss it completely.

I had no intention to claim a victory here.

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