What's wrong to my sentence?

Question

Someone sent me an attachment and asked me to check the content of it.
I checked with a reply: "The attachement has no problem."

but she replied to me:
"The attachement has no problem." is no good.
I should say: "The information in the attachment is correct."

Question:
why "The attachement has no problem." is not correct?
Is that any mistakes happed in this sentence(tenses? grammatical mistake? conventional usage?)

Thanks

Ivanhr · Accepted Answer

Your sentence is fine grammatically but , depending on the nature of your relationship with her, it's probably overly casual/informal.

Also, her reply (the information in the attachment is correct) is more to the point/more concrete than just the attachment has no problem.

Dimsumexpress · Answer

hktrader,
From a grammatical point of view, "The attachement has no problem." isn't wrong. What that someone asked you to do was "open it to verify the content being correct", not if you were able to open it with difficulty or otherwise, at least from an ambiguous angle, that's what it could mean. So technically speaking, you were both right from your own perspective, but both of you were not syntactically connected. However, since the important point was emphasized: " Check the content of it (attachment), what you should have said was " The content in the attachment was correct". That would have been crystal-clear, and correct.

hktradershe replied to me: "The attachement has no problem." is no good. I should say: "The information in the attachment is correct."

hktraderwhy "The attachement has no problem." is not correct?

Hktrader · Answer

Thank you all brothers in englishforum, you are very helpful.

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