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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:24 am Post subject: convenience |
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| Please let me be your earliest convenience if you can accept this task. |
Does it make sense? If so, what does 'let me be your earliest convenience' mean?
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Re: convenience |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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| Please let me be your earliest convenience if you can accept this task. |
Does it make sense? If so, what does 'let me be your earliest convenience' mean? |
No, it doesn't make sense. 'Let me be your earliest convenience' sounds like garbled English. What's the context? Maybe we can clean it up. |
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Chan-Seung Lee
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: no context |
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Sorry, Bob. There is no context because the quote is a question in TOEIC.
The question is as follows:
105) Please let me be ----- earliest convenience if you can accept this task.
a) you b) your c) yours d) yourself
According to its answer explanation, the quote is the same as 'Please let me be at your earliest convenience if you can accept this task.'
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: no context |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
Sorry, Bob. There is no context because the quote is a question in TOEIC.
According to its answer explanation, the quote is the same as 'Please let me be at your earliest convenience if you can accept this task.' |
Interesting. The sentence itself makes no sense, though the answer is grammatically correct. It seems to be a test of pure grammar. Can you recognize what goes where even when the rest of the sentence is all goofy.
In that case, at your earliest convenience is a common polite (prepositional) phrase used with requests so would be the correct answer. |
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