Formal letter: give a waiver

[Tom]

Hi

In a book of Formal Letters by an Indian author, I read a letter that started like this.

" This is to kindly request you to grant me a waiver from the IT course being offered by your esteemed institution, commensing today."

Q1- Is the sentence grammatically correct?
Q2- Is Grant a waiver a coinage or a standard
idiom?

Q3- Does the sentence sound odd to you? (to me it does )

Ever yours

Tom

[Mister Micawber]

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Grant a waiver sounds reasonable. Indian English is more overtly polite in tone than BrE or AmE, and therefore often sounds overdone to Western ears.
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[Tom]

Thanks Mr. Micawber

So the sentence is grammatically correct????

Tom

[Mister Micawber]

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Yes. Commencing is misspelled.
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who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
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