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Please explain position of this words in the sentences. | Which sentence is correct?
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Waiting or Expecting #1 (permalink) Thu Apr 08, 2010 15:26 pm   Waiting or Expecting
 

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Dear All...

I would like to listen your suggestion to choose one of the following closing phrase in a business letter for a better contextual sense:
waiting your sooner reply with full details.
expecting your sooner reply with full details.

please guide me to have a neat closing phrase from the above.

Thank you and best regards,

Sahid
2010.04.08

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Waiting or Expecting #2 (permalink) Thu Apr 08, 2010 17:12 pm   Waiting or Expecting
 

Hi Sahid,

How about

"I await further details and therefore would like to thank you in anticipation of a swift response." ?
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Waiting or Expecting #3 (permalink) Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:58 am   Waiting or Expecting
 

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Hi..Beeesneees,

(you have so many 'e's...! is it ' business' you want to mean....?)

Thanks for your recommendation. Your line is good and I will try in my next letters to have a change of atmosphere for my business mates.

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Waiting or Expecting #4 (permalink) Tue Apr 13, 2010 14:39 pm   Waiting or Expecting
 

I'm glad to have helped Sahid.

If you change the triple e's to double e's, then the name becomes Beesnees. This is a joke on the spelling of the phrase Bees Knees.
Do you know the phrase "the bees knees"? It means the best, as in,
"He thinks he is the bees knees," or "You are the bees knees." (I think that the term might have come from the word 'business' which is sometimes used in the same way - "He thinks he's the business!" so you might be right.)

By spelling "bees knees" without the k and with too many e's I am saying that I am obviously not the best.
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