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place of 'to' #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 16:07 pm   place of 'to'
 

Hello everyone

I'd like to ask if 'to' is placed correctly in the following sentence:

I’d like to express my sincere gratitude for the help in preparing this administrative report to:

name
name

Is it understandable that "to" refers to "gratitude" (gratitude to... for the help), not to "report", or is it better rephrase the sentence?
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place of 'to' #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 16:13 pm   place of 'to'
 

Hi Klpno.

I think the 'to' needs to come earlier as:I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to Charlie Brown for the help in preparing this administrative report.

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place of 'to' #3 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 16:20 pm   place of 'to'
 

Hi Alan

Thank you very much.
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