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Lisa Brinkmann Posted 3 years ago
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Is this sentence clear or is there a better choice:

Would you email your invoice for the siding installation to me so I can sent you a work order and get you paid?

  

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Lisa Brinkmann Is this sentence clear or is there a better choice: send you a work order It's grammatical, but I don't understand it. An invoice would be for work done. A work order is needed before the work starts.

  • Lisa Brinkmann Is this sentence clear or is there a better choice: send you a work order It's grammatical, but I don't understand it.
  • An invoice would be for work done.
  • A work order is needed before the work starts.
  • It seems to me that the correct order of events would be creating an estimate, issuing a work order, the work's being accomplished, the submission of an invoice, the paying for the work.
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Lisa BrinkmannIs this sentence clear or is there a better choice:

send you a work order

It's grammatical, but I don't understand it. An invoice would be for work done. A work order is needed before the work starts. It seems to me that the correct order of events would be creating an estimate, issuing a work order, the work's being accomplished, the su

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Lisa Brinkmann and get you paid?

This is strange. It would be more natural to say and pay you.

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