[Grammar] correct or not ,just to check

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Saker1200

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I would like to know ,is it correct or not to say :
I did send
I did receive

With many thanks in advance.
 

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I would like to know ​if it is [STRIKE]it[/STRIKE] correct or not to say:

I did send
I did receive

With many thanks in advance.

As always, context will dictate whether or not it's correct. Give us some complete sentences or dialogues in which you use them, and then we can comment intelligently.
 

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Many thanks for you .

My friend (in Canada ) ,before two days , has sent me in his letter this statements ;

- I did send a fax to IQAS and corrected the postal code. I hope that will be fine.
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]- I did recieve the remaining PR Cards. I will send them today or tomorrow.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]I would like to check whether if he is correct or not?

Thanks again. [/FONT]
 

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Many thanks for you .

My friend (in Canada ) ,before two days , has sent me in his letter this statements ;

- I did send a fax to IQAS and corrected the postal code. I hope that will be fine.
- I did recieve the remaining PR Cards. I will send them today or tomorrow.

I would like to check whether if he is correct or not?

Thanks again.
Yes, it's correct. "I did send..." = "I sent". Using 'did' for the past tense is normally used for emphasis.
 

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Many thanks [[STRIKE]for[/STRIKE] to you].

My friend (in Canada), [STRIKE]before[/STRIKE] two days ago, [STRIKE]has[/STRIKE] sent me [STRIKE]in his[/STRIKE] a letter which contained [STRIKE]this[/STRIKE] these statements:

- I did send a fax to IQAS and corrected the postal code. I hope that will be fine.
- I did receive the remaining PR Cards. I will send them today or tomorrow.

I would like to check whether if he is correct or not?

Thanks again.

He was correct. He could have said "I sent a fax ..." and "I received the remaining ..." but using "did send" and "did receive" adds an emphasis. Please see the corrections I made to your post in red. Remember the following rules of written English:

- Start every sentence with a capital letter.
- End every sentence with a single appropriate punctuation mark.
- Always capitalise the word "I".
- Do not put a space before a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Always put a space after a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Put a space before an opening bracket but not after it.
- Do not put a space before a closing bracket but do put one after it.

Note the correct spelling of "receive". It follows the famous spelling rule "I before E except after C" (there are a few exceptions but it's still a pretty good rule to follow).
 
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