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Past or Present tense - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
1 Answer. Sorted by: 1. It depends on the timing. If the person has accepted your invitation, or it's assumed the person will attend after being invited, you could say"Your presence is much appreciated". (This is most correct if the event is currently occurring, but it's quite common in English to refer in this way, even if the attendance will ...
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Most Appreciated - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Both versions are certainly acceptable. Interestingly enough, a Google search for"Much appreciated" brings up"About 70,100,000 results" and a Google search for"Most appreciated" brings up"About 244,000,000 results" suggesting the latter may in fact be more popular.
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Usage of"Indeed" in"Thank you very much indeed"
I constantly hear the expression"Thank you very much indeed" in the BBC, both TV and radio. However, I never listen to it on day-to-day conversation, either formal or informal. Moreover, when I say it myself, I am sometimes being told that using"indeed" after"thank you very much" is a sign of"snobbery". Please advise.
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grammar - Confusion about"very" and"very much" - English Language ...
The major confusion factor is that the"-ed" suffix has two functions: (1) morphologically, suffix"-ed" can convert a verb to an adjective, (2) syntactically,"-ed" can convert an active verb into a passive verb (which is still a verb, however, not an adjective). Traditional grammar is often not very clear about this, often calling the ...
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"Extremely appreciate": grammatically correct?
If you really want to express the extreme, @jam's version is good, and so is"Your hospitality is extremely appreciated." or"I'd like to express my extreme appreciation for your hospitality!" There we've switched from adverb/verb to adjective/noun. – TecBrat. Jun 29, 2012 at 19:51.
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word choice -"Deeply appreciated" or"dearly appreciated" - English ...
Being a possible collocation of appreciate,"deeply appreciated" would be more suitable. Dearly, on the other hand, will also intensify the meaning of appreciate by adding a sense of"very much". Dearly appreciated would be understood, but it's vanishingly rare by comparison with the"stock phrase" deeply appreciated.
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Is it acceptable to use"Much Appreciated" as the closing for a letter ...
I personally think that it is a matter of choice whether you would like to use it or not. I'd say"Much appreciated" is a casual sign-off that should be used for expressing gratitude for favors, like trying to confirm with someone to be a reference for your letter of recommendation or basically asking of someone to do a favor, like babysitting, housekeeping, etc. and once the favor is accepted ...
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Is it correct to write:"I would appreciate it if you could inform me ...
I want to know if someone has eventually contacted my manager. I therefore want to send him a formal email to ask him very politely. Is it correct to write as follow ?"I would appreciate it if ...
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What is the correct tense to use for a sentence like this?
...is much appreciated. There's nothing inherently wrong with that construction, grammatically or sematically. But I think many people might say it would read more 'naturally' if you changed it to...has been much appreciated. That will get rid of the slight unease created by the sentence switching from past to present tense.
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"Any ideas are appreciated" or"Any ideas would be appreciated"?
The reason for saying"would be appreciated" as opposed to"are appreciated" is that the ideas haven't come in yet. Share. Improve this answer. Follow edited Jan 6, ...
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