Hi friends, is the following line grammatically correct, Earlier in the fortnight i contacted you regarding ..

Question

I want to know , whether the sentence,Earlier in the fortnight i contacted you regarding my interest to work in your lab,is correct or not?or how else can i modify it.

Answer 1

No one uses fortnight any more!
Try earlier in the week I contacted you........

Answer 2

I would have to say No. A fortnight is a two week period, or the space of fourteen nights and days. So, "a fortnight ago" would be 2 weeks ago. It really wouldn't be grammatically correct to say "earlier in the two weeks".

Answer 3

Earlier in the fortnight, I contacted you regarding my interest in working in your lab.

Answer 4

It's grammatically correct, but doesn't make good sense. "Fortnight" means two weeks. But I don't guess you really want to say, "Earlier in the two weeks I contacted you ...," so the way it ought to be modified depends on what it is that you want to say. All I can do is guess at what you meant to say. If by "fortnight" you meant "2 weeks ago," then a good way to modify it would be to say, "Two weeks ago I contacted you ...."

Answer 5

It is that, although it may technically be correct, the word 'fortnight ' is obsolete and no one uses it any more. The time frames we use now are the week, the month, the season, the year. So you could say, "Earlier in the week..." or whatever time period it was. More commonly we say... "I contacted you two weeks ago regarding my interest in working at your lab... ", or you might say , "It has been two weeks since I contacted you regarding my interest in working at your lab... "

Answer 6

i contacted you earlier in the fortnight, regarding my interest to work in your lab.

i think that sounds better. or yours needs a comma after fortnight

Answer 7

We do not say fortnight.

Say this:
I contacted you earlier and expressed my interest in working in your lab...