Tenses and grammar

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Which sentence is gramatically correct? - "He placed the request for replacement of the machine yesterday" or "Yesterday, he placed the request for replacement of the machine"

MountainHiker · Accepted Answer

Both sentences are fine. Choose the one that sounds best in the context of your writing. For example, if your previous sentence started with an adverb, perhaps you don't want to start this sentence with another adverb.

Obviously, the machine need to be replaced. Yesterday, he placed a request for the replacement of the machine.

(Doesn't sound so great.)

Obviously, the machine need to be replaced. He placed a request for the replacement of the machine yesterday.

(Maybe a bit better.)

Because the machine needed to be replaced urgently, he placed a request for the replacement of the machine yesterday.

(Probably a somewhat better.)

Adverbs often have a lot of flexibility as to where the writer places them in a sentence. In your example, both locations are fine.

One last comment, I would likely say a request as opposed to the request. You are not discussing the request in further detail. For example: The request he made for the replacement of the machine contained several errors, which delayed the order by more than two weeks.

In that example, we are discussing that specific request. In your example sentence, the key point is that a request was made.

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