[General] may select the questions that feels comfortable to answer.

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"Please take a look at the inquiries listed below, and may select the questions that feels comfortable to answer. "

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my intention for the sentence above is that it will be great if they could answer all the inquiries listed,

but I don't want to be rude or give them too much pressure, so I want to tell them that they could pick the questions

to whichever they feel confident/ comfortable answering.

could you check if the sentence sounds right?
 

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A sentence should start with a capital letter.

A question that feels comfortable - a question cannot feel, a person can feel

It is better to break a long sentence into shorter ones.

Who 'may select the questions'? Who is 'they'?
 

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Thank you so much for your reply.

Could I change my sentenct to

" Please take a look at the inquiries listed below, and answer the questions as much as you feel comfortable (doing so/with)."

would this sentence makes sense?
 

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Feel free to answer the questions that you are comfortable with, as many as you can.
 

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"Please take a look at the inquiries listed below and answer as many questions as you feel comfortable with."
 

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"Please take a look at the inquiries listed below and answer as many questions as you feel comfortable with."

I think there is a slight difference between answering as many questions as you feel comfortable with and

answering questions that you feel comfortable with, as many as you can. :)
 

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And what would that difference be? I think the phraseology in the second is clumsy.
 

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I think 'being comfortable with the number of questions answered is slightly different from
'being comfortable with answering the questions'.

P.S.

This might sound better:

Please take a look at the inquiries listed below and answer as many questions as you can, that you are comfortable with.
 
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Where did "the number of questions" come from?
 

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answer as many questions as you feel comfortable with - isn't this referring to the number of questions?
 

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"Please take a look at the inquiries listed below and answer as many questions as you can, that you are comfortable with."This is a very awkward sentence.
 

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"Please take a look at the inquiries listed below and answer as many questions as you can, that you are comfortable with."This is a very awkward sentence.

Could you please rephrase it to make it better?
 
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