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Is the following sentence correct and natural?

We'll pay below payment and then please do the arrangement for us.

(I can tell you the situation as above sentence. We pay the bill and request that company arrangement for delivery the goods to customer.)
 
Note:
1- Even though "above" can come before or after a noun, "below" comes after the noun.
2- To avoid having the similar words "pay" and "payment" so close to each other, use "amount" or "sum" instead of "payment".
3- I think "so" would be a better conjunction than "and" in that sentence.
4- The verb that goes with "arrangement" is "make", not "do".
5- Include the bit about the customer in your sentence.

Revise your sentence, and post below.
 
Hi teechar,

We'll pay below amount, so then please make the arrangement for us.

Is it perfect now?
 
teechar said:
Note:
1- Even though "above" can come before or after a noun, "below" comes after the noun.
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(I added emphasis.)

Polyester said:
We'll pay below amount, so then please make the arrangement for us.

Is it perfect now?
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Did you comply with the first rule stated above?

Don't ask whether something is perfect. Ask whether it's okay or correct.
 
Polyester said:

Is it perfect now?
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Not yet. What did I say about the position of "below"? Also, include the part about the customer to give the sentence more meaning.
 
We'll pay the amount below, so then please make the arrangement for us.

(I can tell you the situation above. We pay the amount and request that company to arrange delivery the goods to our customer.)

Please check my revision sentence above. Is it correct now? I looked at my sentence more than twice and made sure it was correct.
 
Polyester said:
We'll pay the amount below, so then please make the arrangement for us.
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The first clause is correct. Well done for noticing that it needed an article!

Change the comma to a period ("full stop" in British English) and make the second clause into a complete sentence. Leave out "so" and "then". Unless the person you're writing to knows what arrangement you're talking about, you have to say what it is.
 
Polyester said:
We'll pay the amount below, so then please make the arrangement for us.
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Your sentence is now grammatical, and the first part is also natural. However, the second part might need more words. Have you already discussed the arrangement with them? If you just say "arrangement", will they know exactly what you're talking about?
 
We'll pay the amount below, so then please make the arrangement for us about delivery the goods to customer.

I think it is correct. Is it ?


 
Polyester, I deleted your post because what you wrote in it would have required a whole new thread to fix it! I asked you who was going to do the delivery, and I now understand that it's the company you're writing to who will deliver the goods, so let's look again at what you wrote in post #9 and try to fix it.

We'll pay the amount below, so then please make the arrangement for us about delivery the goods to customer.
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I've bolded what needs to be fixed.
1- The word "then" is unnecessary, so we can remove it.
2- Instead of "make the arrangement for us", we can use one verb. Can you guess which one?
3- Instead of "delivery", we use "deliver".
4- Because we are talking about a particular customer, which article do we need to use?

Try again now and post below.
 
We'll pay the amount below, so please arrange the goods to deliver to our customer.

I think it is okay, is it correct now?
 
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We'll pay the amount below, so please arrange to deliver the goods to our customer.

Is it okay now?

One more question, could you please tell me why "okay." must be full stop and starts with "Is"? Why am I not correct using coma here?
 
Polyester said:
We'll pay the amount below, so please arrange to deliver the goods to our customer.
Is it okay now?
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Yes. Well done! :up: :rainbowa:
Polyester said:
Could you please tell me why after "okay" there must be a full stop and why we need to start a new sentence with "Is"? Why am I not correct using a coma here?
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That's a very good question, and what you've described is a very common mistake that learners make. It's called a comma splice error.
Let's take a look at that bit of text again.
Polyester said:
I think it is okay, is it correct now?
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Can those two parts stand on their own as individual sentences?
 
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Understood. They are two parts individual sentence.:B-fly:
 
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