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Are these you looking for?

Is this correct?
 

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Your post does not make sense, I'm afraid. Your title contains a spelling error and your main sentence isn't grammatical. Can you tell us what you are trying to say in another way?
 

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Your post does not make sense, I'm afraid. Your title contains a spelling error and your main sentence isn't grammatical. Can you tell us what you are trying to say in another way?

I sent some files via email to someone and I am not sure whether the files meets his requirement or not so I asked:
Are these you looking for?

I understand alternatively I can also ask: Are you looking for these files?​
 
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If you have already sent them, you could ask "Are those the files you were waiting/looking for?"
 

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If you have already sent them, you could ask "Are those the files you were waiting/looking for?"

Can I say that we can mix present continuous and past continuous in a single sentence?
 

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Can I say that we can mix present continuous and past continuous in a single sentence?
You can mix any tenses you like in a sentence, as long as it makes sense and is grammatical.
"I'm bringing you the files you were looking for."
 

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Suppose we are sending an email with attachments and we are not sue whether the files are correct or not. Can we ask in a following way?

Are these the files you were looking for?

My doubt is: should we use these or those?
 

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