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Hktrader Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Simple question about a word : "enclosed"
Hi, everyone, I have a question to the word "enclosed"
I read a letter oneday and found a following sentence:
" Enclosed is our latest catalogue for your reference."
And I check up in my dictionary:
"Enclosed" can be an adjective or verb.
If that is true, I think the above sentence is wrong as the word "Enclosed" is placing at the "Noun" position.
The sentence should be corrected in such ways:
1)I enclose our latest catalogue for your reference.
2)The enclosed latest catalogue is for your reference.
Can anyone tell me whether I am right or wrong?
I read a letter oneday and found a following sentence:
" Enclosed is our latest catalogue for your reference."
And I check up in my dictionary:
"Enclosed" can be an adjective or verb.
If that is true, I think the above sentence is wrong as the word "Enclosed" is placing at the "Noun" position.
The sentence should be corrected in such ways:
1)I enclose our latest catalogue for your reference.
2)The enclosed latest catalogue is for your reference.
Can anyone tell me whether I am right or wrong?
Top answer
hktrader Enclosed is our latest catalogue for your reference. This is just an inversion of "Our latest catalog is enclosed for your reference". Your corrections are unnecessary as it is perfectly fine to invert a sentence in that way.
- hktrader Enclosed is our latest catalogue for your reference.
- This is just an inversion of "Our latest catalog is enclosed for your reference".
- Your corrections are unnecessary as it is perfectly fine to invert a sentence in that way.
- It's common in business letters.
- 'attached' works the same way.
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hktrader Enclosed is our latest catalogue for your reference.This is just an inversion of "Our latest catalog is enclosed for your reference".
Your corrections are unnecessary as it is perfectly fine to invert a sentence in that way. It's common in business letters. 'attached' works the same way.
Attached is a picture of our latest mode
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Thanks!
so which part of speech is the "enclosed" ?
adjective? verb? using past participle?
so which part of speech is the "enclosed" ?
adjective? verb? using past participle?
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The verb in the sentence is:
is enclosed
It is present tense, passive voice.
Enclosed can also be considered as the past participle having an adjectival function - in this case it could be described as a "statal passive".
is enclosed
It is present tense, passive voice.
Enclosed can also be considered as the past participle having an adjectival function - in this case it could be described as a "statal passive".
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