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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Would like to know if it was really wrong

I am working in a german company as a foreign language secretary english and French my boss doesn't speak english well but she is always correcting me.

The other day I wrote the following:

Ready for pickup at the beginning of the 6th week 2009.

She told me that the sentence is not correct.
  

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I don't see anything wrong with that sentence other than it might be a little unclear as to when the '6th week of 2009' actually is! Did you mean the first week of February? This might make it a little easier to understand.

  • I don't see anything wrong with that sentence other than it might be a little unclear as to when the '6th week of 2009' actually is!
  • Did you mean the first week of February?
  • This might make it a little easier to understand.
  • As for the grammar of your sentence, there is nothing wrong for it.
  • ready for collection....
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I don't see anything wrong with that sentence other than it might be a little unclear as to when the '6th week of 2009' actually is!
Did you mean the first week of February? This might make it a little easier to understand.
As for the grammar of your sentence, there is nothing wrong for it.

you could also say...ready for collection....

I'm assuming this is a sentence t
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Hi,
I am working in a german company as a foreign language secretary english and French my boss doesn't speak english well but she is always correcting me.
I am working in a German company as a foreign language secretary, English and French. My boss doesn't speak English well but she is always correcting me.

The other day I wrote the following:
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Of course it's not a sentence - more like a memo - but your meaning seems perfectly clear to me, and I wouldn 't call it "incorrect."

However, I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it. I suspect people in the business world would prefer to have their business communications follow set patterns.

As an American, I find the European style of expressing dates a
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AvangiI don't think it's natural to count the number of weeks from the beginning of the year. I don't think anyone in the US would have any idea which week it is, without stopping to figure it out. However, in certain industries, perhaps that kind of reckoning is useful.

Hi Avangi. Counting the weeks is perfectly natural in Finland and I've got a hu
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Thanks, CB. I guess I sort of stepped in it. (I had what my mother used to call "a sneaking suspicion.")

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