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[Swim4life]

I asked the similar question last week about this sentence. I have changed it a little this week, wondering if it sounds natural. Thanks a million.

�Please advise who I should make the invoice out to, and to whose attention it should be directed.�

[asterix]

It's OK but to be consistent, and grammatically correct, you should write,
Please advise (me) to whom I should make the invoice out, and to whose attention it should be directed.

[Lorikeet]

[Swim4life]

[asterix]

In formal English you should use, to whom and to whose. It is certainly grammatically correct and you may be writing to a businessman who learned his grammar in the old days.
However, as Lorikeet was pointing out, if you do decide to write: �Please advise whom I should make the invoice out to", then you should also write, "and whose attention it should be directed to."

I was taught at school that you always write to whom and to whose and never leave the preposition dangling at the end, but as I am sadly aware, the tendency today is to dumb down the grammar.
Still you will never be wrong if you stick to the rules.

[CP]

I second Asterix's statement: