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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Visit you/ or visiting you?

Is it right?

We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before visiting you.

Thank you! Emotion: smile

  

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anonymous We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before visiting you. In this sentence, the implied subject of "visiting" is "you", which doesn't make sense. I think you probably mean this: We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before we visit you .

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  • anonymous We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before visiting you.
  • In this sentence, the implied subject of "visiting" is "you", which doesn't make sense.
  • I think you probably mean this: We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before we visit you .
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anonymousWe would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before visiting you.

In this sentence, the implied subject of "visiting" is "you", which doesn't make sense. I think you probably mean this:

We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before we v

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This sentence needs to clarify who is visiting.

eg We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before we visit you.

eg We would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before our visiting you.

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Interesting comments.

The first and only thing I thought of was that it meant "before we visit you", using the subject of the main clause. Do people really think of "before you visit you" as a possibility? (Obviously, yes!) In this sentence, if 'you' was truly intended as the implicit element, wouldn't that be "before visiting yourself"?

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anonymousWe would really appreciate it if you could provide additional information about your desktop before visiting you.

Why the subordinate before visiting you has to have "you" as a subject in that sentence?

You cannot logically visit yourself; you can only be the object of the visit not the agent of visiting in such a context. Doesn't logi

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