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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

The Present Tense

Thank you in advance.

May I know the reason why the present tense in letter-writting?

We write to advise you ....
  

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Why not use the present tense in contexts like that? What tense would prefer? We wrote to advise you?

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  • Why not use the present tense in contexts like that?
  • What tense would prefer?
  • We wrote to advise you?
  • / We have written to advise you?
  • / We will write to advise you?
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Why not use the present tense in contexts like that? What tense would prefer? We wrote to advise you? / We have written to advise you? / We will write to advise you?

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I do not understand the reason why the present tense is used because a letter must be written first before it can be read.

Is this possible? We wrote to advise you
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kl004535Is this possible? We wrote to advise you
Yes, if they wrote earlier and are now reminding someone of that. If a person writes or is writing a letter right now, he cannot possibly say: I wrote...

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