#2 (permalink) Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:47 am Sentence: Thank you very much for following up with me on our conversation... |
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"Thank you very much for following up with me on our conversation." -- is fine, but it leaves me wondering which conversation? If only one conversation has ever occurred, fine. Otherwise, mention which conversation, such as "our conversation Monday morning." Put a space after the period.
"Yes, I saw your email yesterday but, after taken a week off and returned yesterday I had so much to catch up on that it skipped me to respond to your email, please pardon me." -- The comma should be before "but" rather than after it ("...yesterday, but after..."). The verbs "taken" and "returned" need auxiliary words. It should be "having taken" and "having returned". The more typical idiom is "slipped my mind" rather than "skipped me". You have a comma splice near the end because "Please pardon me" is a complete sentence. Try not to make long sentences unless your purpose is best served by such and you can make your meaning very clear.
In the next sentence, I don't know your meaning for "posting". Could it mean "posting my resumé online"? Here is how I might write all of this:
"Thank you very much for following up with me after our conversation. Yes, I saw your email yesterday. Please pardon me for not replying immediately. After having taken a week off and having returned just yesterday, I had so much to catch up on that it slipped my mind.
Gina told me yesterday that my position is safe and that I should stay for a while before posting." |
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Lance I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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