Re: Sentence correction - need help


Learner wrote:
We, myself and my buddy (just 2 of us) work for the same employer and
are at a client site working on the same project. I faxed over the time
sheets for the second half of the month of Feb to our employer and then
i wanted to let our manager know that i had faxed over the time sheets.


So after reading through your corrections i thought it could be written
as

Hello David,
Please find our time sheets and let us know if you haven't received
them.
thanks
-D

The reason i wanted to use "any of those" (them) was because for some
reason he couldn't find one of the time sheets when we had faxed over
last time. So i just wanted to tell him to let us know if he couldn't
find any of them.

One more question, in your posting when you said "if they'd all
arrived" the word "they'd" is it "they would" or "they had"? I always
get confused of what it might/could be when i come across words like
"he'd", "she'd" etc,.

Hi, Learner! I'm not David, but I'll try to help too.

When you say "find," it usually means something is missing that should
be there. So if you're asking him to "find" the sheets, it could mean
that the sheets have been lost.

They haven't been lost (well, you hope they haven't) but when you ask
him to "find" them, you're sort of saying "hey, you should know where
the sheets are!"

It would be a little friendlier to say "Can you make sure you have our
time sheets and let us know if you haven't received them." That way,
he's just going to check (make sure) that he HAS your time sheets, and
he doesn't have to "find" them.

If you ask him to find the sheets, you think something has gone wrong.
If you ask him to make sure the sheets are there, you are just checking
to be certain that everything is all right.

- Matt

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