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Therefore, we would be most grateful if Your Excellency could assist us in having a paper prepared for the Minister about the ATA’s recent activities.
2007-08-09 21:44:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Yes, but it'd be better if you made it: Therefore, we would be most grateful if Your Excellencycould assist us in having a paper about the ATA's recent activities prepared for the Minister.
2007-08-09 21:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The grammar is perfect. Personally, I would change it slightly to: Therefore, we would be most grateful if Your Excellency could assist us in the preparation of a paper for the Minister about the ATA's recent activities.
2007-08-10 06:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion you do not need the comma after "Therefore" and you do not need to put "the" in front of "ATA's."
I would also write: "we would be most grateful if Your Excellency assisted us in preparing a paper for the Minister..." instead of what you have here.
The sentence becomes a little more 'active' that way.
Try it out, read it outloud, and I think you'll see an improvement. (but I don't know what ATAs are...a group? that's how I interpreted it. if it's 'things,' you MAY need 'the'... [ so much for my own written grammar between these parentheses! pls excuse it! ]...)
I've been told that reading a sentence outloud will often tell you how you can improve the grammar.
2007-08-10 05:06:54 · answer #3 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isn't incorrect, however it is passive. try...
Therefore, we would be most grateful if Your Excellency could assist us in PREPARING a paper for the Minister about the ATA’s recent activities.
2007-08-10 04:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by theoutcrop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grammatically correct, yes.
As for it sounding passive, I can understand why this is so. It gives it an air of formality and submission.
Making it sound active would give it a tone of giving an instruction; this would not do as you are addressing The Excellency.
Therefore, your sentence is not only grammatically correct, but it is also worded very well.
2007-08-10 07:14:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds fine to me.
It's not passive as suggested by a previous answer - (and in any case, it wouldn't matter if it were). If anything it's "causal" - but that doesn't matter either - the important thing is that the answer to your question - Do you think short sentence is grammatically correct? - is "yes".
2007-08-10 04:59:50 · answer #6 · answered by GrahamH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.americantongue.com/grammar.htm
is the best grammar website
2007-08-10 16:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by nino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perfect
2007-08-10 04:47:45 · answer #8 · answered by abdiver12 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perfect.
2007-08-10 05:02:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it might be passive, i can't remember.
2007-08-10 04:47:36 · answer #10 · answered by Corey the Cosmonaut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋