Use of `even` to emphasize the desired outcome of a request
Is the word even correctly used to emphasize that arranging a call is the preferable outcome?
I'd greatly appreciate if you could
evenfind some time to discuss this on a call with me. In this case, please use the link below to choose the most convenient time slot for the call:
Context: outreach email
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Is the word even correctly used to emphasize that arranging a call is the preferable outcome?
I'd greatly appreciate if you could
evenfind some time to discuss this on a call with me. In this case, please use the link below to choose the most convenient time slot for the call:
Context: outreach email
word-usage
asked 8 hours ago
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Is the word even correctly used to emphasize that arranging a call is the preferable outcome?
I'd greatly appreciate if you could
evenfind some time to discuss this on a call with me. In this case, please use the link below to choose the most convenient time slot for the call:
Context: outreach email
word-usage
asked 8 hours ago
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Is the word even correctly used to emphasize that arranging a call is the preferable outcome?
I'd greatly appreciate if you could
evenfind some time to discuss this on a call with me. In this case, please use the link below to choose the most convenient time slot for the call:
Context: outreach email
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There, even alludes to something outside the context you've given us, and means something like "go further than that" or "do more than that", where that refers to the thing alluded to, the thing a call would be preferable to.
I'd appreciate it if you could email me the information, and I would be very grateful if you could even find some time to discuss this on a call.
You are not using "in this case" idiomatically. In this case refers to a specific objective condition not to a person's potential willingness to speak with you on the phone.
Normally we would advise someone in your financial position to invest in widgets, but in this case we are advising against that and would suggest that put your money in gizmos.
this implies closeness, something you can literally or figuratively point to as if it were present, and so it doesn't work with mere possibility, with if. This would be better:
In that case, please use the link below.
The demonstrative that points to something that is literally distant or figuratively "remote", and thus it goes much better with "even ... do X", since that construction with even establishes "X" as something less likely or in some way more difficult or a greater imposition than something else.
However, case is still a problem, since willingness to find time to speak with you is not really a "case" or "specific condition" either. These would be idiomatic:
If that is possible, please use the link below...
If you are able to phone, please use the link below...
There are many other ways of phrasing it as well.
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There, even alludes to something outside the context you've given us, and means something like "go further than that" or "do more than that", where that refers to the thing alluded to, the thing a call would be preferable to.
I'd appreciate it if you could email me the information, and I would be very grateful if you could even find some time to discuss this on a call.
You are not using "in this case" idiomatically. In this case refers to a specific objective condition not to a person's potential willingness to speak with you on the phone.
Normally we would advise someone in your financial position to invest in widgets, but in this case we are advising against that and would suggest that put your money in gizmos.
this implies closeness, something you can literally or figuratively point to as if it were present, and so it doesn't work with mere possibility, with if. This would be better:
In that case, please use the link below.
The demonstrative that points to something that is literally distant or figuratively "remote", and thus it goes much better with "even ... do X", since that construction with even establishes "X" as something less likely or in some way more difficult or a greater imposition than something else.
However, case is still a problem, since willingness to find time to speak with you is not really a "case" or "specific condition" either. These would be idiomatic:
If that is possible, please use the link below...
If you are able to phone, please use the link below...
There are many other ways of phrasing it as well.
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There, even alludes to something outside the context you've given us, and means something like "go further than that" or "do more than that", where that refers to the thing alluded to, the thing a call would be preferable to.
I'd appreciate it if you could email me the information, and I would be very grateful if you could even find some time to discuss this on a call.
You are not using "in this case" idiomatically. In this case refers to a specific objective condition not to a person's potential willingness to speak with you on the phone.
Normally we would advise someone in your financial position to invest in widgets, but in this case we are advising against that and would suggest that put your money in gizmos.
this implies closeness, something you can literally or figuratively point to as if it were present, and so it doesn't work with mere possibility, with if. This would be better:
In that case, please use the link below.
The demonstrative that points to something that is literally distant or figuratively "remote", and thus it goes much better with "even ... do X", since that construction with even establishes "X" as something less likely or in some way more difficult or a greater imposition than something else.
However, case is still a problem, since willingness to find time to speak with you is not really a "case" or "specific condition" either. These would be idiomatic:
If that is possible, please use the link below...
If you are able to phone, please use the link below...
There are many other ways of phrasing it as well.
answered 8 hours ago
TRomanoTRomano
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There, even alludes to something outside the context you've given us, and means something like "go further than that" or "do more than that", where that refers to the thing alluded to, the thing a call would be preferable to.
I'd appreciate it if you could email me the information, and I would be very grateful if you could even find some time to discuss this on a call.
You are not using "in this case" idiomatically. In this case refers to a specific objective condition not to a person's potential willingness to speak with you on the phone.
Normally we would advise someone in your financial position to invest in widgets, but in this case we are advising against that and would suggest that put your money in gizmos.
this implies closeness, something you can literally or figuratively point to as if it were present, and so it doesn't work with mere possibility, with if. This would be better:
In that case, please use the link below.
The demonstrative that points to something that is literally distant or figuratively "remote", and thus it goes much better with "even ... do X", since that construction with even establishes "X" as something less likely or in some way more difficult or a greater imposition than something else.
However, case is still a problem, since willingness to find time to speak with you is not really a "case" or "specific condition" either. These would be idiomatic:
If that is possible, please use the link below...
If you are able to phone, please use the link below...
There are many other ways of phrasing it as well.
answered 8 hours ago
TRomanoTRomano
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There, even alludes to something outside the context you've given us, and means something like "go further than that" or "do more than that", where that refers to the thing alluded to, the thing a call would be preferable to.
I'd appreciate it if you could email me the information, and I would be very grateful if you could even find some time to discuss this on a call.
You are not using "in this case" idiomatically. In this case refers to a specific objective condition not to a person's potential willingness to speak with you on the phone.
Normally we would advise someone in your financial position to invest in widgets, but in this case we are advising against that and would suggest that put your money in gizmos.
this implies closeness, something you can literally or figuratively point to as if it were present, and so it doesn't work with mere possibility, with if. This would be better:
In that case, please use the link below.
The demonstrative that points to something that is literally distant or figuratively "remote", and thus it goes much better with "even ... do X", since that construction with even establishes "X" as something less likely or in some way more difficult or a greater imposition than something else.
However, case is still a problem, since willingness to find time to speak with you is not really a "case" or "specific condition" either. These would be idiomatic:
If that is possible, please use the link below...
If you are able to phone, please use the link below...
There are many other ways of phrasing it as well.
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