suggested that I contact you / suggested contacting you

[cyber_nomad]

Peace and greetings to all .. this is my first post:

First question: Which sentence is right? [Part of a message I want to send]

1) A friend gave me your email address and suggested that I contact you.
2) A friend gave me your email address and suggested contacting you.

 

[cyber_nomad]

.. another option:-
A friend gave me your email address and suggested that I contacted you.

 

[5jj]

Welcome to the forum, cyber_nomad.
Both sentences are possible.

(Posted later:

Please do not submit new posts until earlier posts have been dealt with in future. Your post #2 had not appeared when I posted this response to your original post.)

 

[5jj]

After "suggest(ed) that ...", we use the bare infinitive.

Actually it's the present subjunctive.

 

[cyber_nomad]

Please do not submit new posts until earlier posts have been dealt with in future. Your post #2 had not appeared when I posted this response to your original post

Is it normal to moderate each and every post by all, or do you have a grudge against Sudanese people?

 

[Tarheel]

Is it normal to moderate each and every post by all, or do you have a grudge against Sudanese people?

I didn't know you were Sudanese until I read that. However, if you respond to several threads a day you want to keep confusion to a minimum.

There is a difference between moderating posts and responding to them.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is it normal to moderate each and every post by all, or do you have a grudge against Sudanese people?

The first ten posts of any new user automatically go into moderation and are only publicly visible once a moderator has approved them. After that, posts will go straight up.

Note that I have deleted my entire post about "Not a teacher" and your response. It was entirely my fault. I somehow misread the username on post #1 and thought a completely different user had started this thread and that you were responding. I apologise.