Monday, December 21, 2009

Please advise, do I use the word ';seemingly'; correctly in this sentence?

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Regarding the letter from ACD No. 234 dated 25th January 2008, addressed to Mr. Andrew, we'd like to inform you that we only received the first page out of ';seemingly'; 10 pages.





Therefore, we'd like to ask you kind help again to send us the rest of the letter.Please advise, do I use the word ';seemingly'; correctly in this sentence?
skip the word and state what you mean.





blah blah blah, we only received 1 page. Please resend the letter in its entirety.Please advise, do I use the word ';seemingly'; correctly in this sentence?
no
It didn't seem to be 10 pages; it seemed to be 1 page.
no





it should be:


we only received the first page out of the expected 10 pages.





seemingly means you are uncertain. in the above paragraph you are sure you should be expecting 10 pages
I think so, ';seemingly'; meaning that there seemed to have been 10 pages meant to be received.
take the word out and it sounds fine... the first page out of 10 pages

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