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Pamela81 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Sentence to correct
Dear all,
Please have a look at this sentence.
"Dear XXX,
please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time"
I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence:
1. to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
2. the part starting with "I don´t want " until the end I think is incorrect. right ??
How would you say it in correct English ?
Thank you
Pamela
Please have a look at this sentence.
"Dear XXX,
please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time"
I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence:
1. to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
2. the part starting with "I don´t want " until the end I think is incorrect. right ??
How would you say it in correct English ?
Thank you
Pamela
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Please have a look at this sentence. "Dear ***, please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time" I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence: 1. to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
- Please have a look at this sentence.
- "Dear ***, please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time" I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence: 1.
- to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
- You put work into something.
- 2.
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Please have a look at this sentence.
"Dear ***,
please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time"
I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence:
1. to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
"Dear ***,
please note that at this stage, I am obliged to accept your request, because we put a lot of work in projecting the stand and I don´t want to have the feeling of having wasted time"
I have many doubts about the second part of the sentence:
1. to put a work "in" is the right preposition ?
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"put a lot of work into ..." is usual, but I'm not very clear what you mean by "projecting the stand".
"I don't want to have the feeling of having wasted time" is not exactly incorrect, but it seems a bit long-winded. You could perhaps say "... and I don't want that time to be wasted". A lot depends on how annoyed/grudging you want to sound. Your current wording sounds as if you ar
"I don't want to have the feeling of having wasted time" is not exactly incorrect, but it seems a bit long-winded. You could perhaps say "... and I don't want that time to be wasted". A lot depends on how annoyed/grudging you want to sound. Your current wording sounds as if you ar
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GPY"put a lot of work into ..." is usual, but I'm not very clear what you mean by "projecting the stand"."I don't want to have the feeling of having wasted time" is not exactly incorrect, but it seems a bit long-winded. You could perhaps say "... and I don't want that time to be wasted". A lot depends on how annoyed/grudging you want to sound. Your current wording sounds
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Pamela81By "projecting the stand" I mean to draw \ project a stand design (drawing ) .By "stand", do you mean a display area, such as for merchandise for sale?
Pamela81Yes, correct. I was annoyed and wanted to point it out somehow..I think that Clive's suggestion sounds slighly more annoyed than mine (I hadn't seen Cl
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