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Jackson6612 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

This is an edit to the message sent before the last two messages

Hi

Are the following sentences correct and natural? Please let me know. Thanks.

This is an edit the message sent before the previous/last message.
This is an edit to the message sent before the last two messages.

Regards
Jackson
  

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Is this what you mean? This is an edited version of a previous message, not the most recent message, but the one before that (dated 8-August 2014).

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  • This is an edited version of a previous message, not the most recent message, but the one before that (dated 8-August 2014).
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Is this what you mean?

This is an edited version of a previous message, not the most recent message, but the one before that (dated 8-August 2014).
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Thank you.
AlpheccaStarsIs this what you mean?This is an edited version of a previous message, not the most recent message, but the one before that (dated 8-August 2014).
What if I don't want to be that specific.

Could we say?

This is an edited version (an edit/addition to) of my previous message sent before the last two messages.

Than
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Jackson6612This is an edited version (an edit/addition to) of my previous message sent before the last two messages.
It sounds like you are trying very hard to be specific.

If you don't want to specify a particular message, just say:

This is an edited version of an earlier message (on the subject of ...).
This is an addendum to a previo
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Thank you.

Well, when I said that I don't want to be that specific, I simply meant that I didn't want to say "dated" etc.

Anyway, thanks.
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