ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: Effective Writing

Dehbaash — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:56:58 GMT

"Once you have the estimates of how much missing data can be retrieved, we can forward them to Mark."

Re: Effective Writing

Clive — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:21:52 GMT

Hi,
If you want effective writing, I don't like any of these sentences. The main reason is that it's very vague to talk about estimating availability. What 'you' are really trying to estimate is the date on which the missing data will be available. I suggest this briefer and more direct version is more effective writing:

Once you have estimated when the missing data will be available, we could forward this information to Mark.

Best wishes,
Clive

Effective Writing

Guest — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:38:09 GMT

Which version is considered most effective writing? Is it the first one? Is it a grammatically correct sentence.

1. Once you have the estimates of the missing data availability, we could forward this to Mark.

2. Once you have the estimates for the availability of the missing data, we could forward this to Mark.

3. Once you have the estimates for the availability of the data that is missing, we could forward this to Mark