- Thank you very much in advance.
- Thank you in advance very much.
Is the first sentence correct or the second one? I would say that the first one is right, but I am not sure.
In any case, thank you very much in advance!
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- Thank you very much in advance.
- Thank you in advance very much.
Is the first sentence correct or the second one? I would say that the first one is right, but I am not sure.
In any case, thank you very much in advance!
Here are some search results from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA):
12464 thank you very much
16 thank you in advance
0 thank you very much in advance
0 thank you in advance very much
As you can see, thank you very much is a common collocation. Thank you in advance is attested but less common, and the other combinations have no results whatsoever.
Ideally, you wouldn't combine in advance with thank you very much at all; it's simply not idiomatic. But if you do, I think it sounds marginally less unnatural putting in advance at the end, perhaps because thank you very much is such a common collocation, and breaking it up with in advance is odd.
So if I were forced to pick, I'd pick thank you very much in advance, although my real preference is for neither.
Grammatically, both are OK.
1) Thank you very much in advance.
2) Thank you in advance very much.
However, when you switch the positions of modifiers, the sentence may tell something differently. It is good idea to put a modifier close to what it modifies. But you have got a problem here. The phrases "in advance" and "very much", both seem to modify "thank you". Comparing the both modifiers, you could feel the "in advance" is less dependent. In other words, you could sense what "in advance" says without any other words. However, what can you know when I say only a phrase "very much". The phrase "very much" is more dependent on what it modifies than "in advance". So you might want to put more-dependent modifiers closer to what they modify. Again, see the sentence 2) Thank you in advance very much. You might be confused saying "very much" for what?" Some may think the "very much" modifies "in advance", because it is the closest to "very much".
As mentioned, the phrase you show is not idiomatic. But it does not mean you must not use it, although you have to be careful about what they think hearing unusual phrases.
“thank you very much” in advance
and“thank you” very much in advance
? I am Czech and I don't see a difference. I want to say this:I want to thank you in advance and I want to thank you very much.
How do I say it in one sentence? How to merge these sentences? – Derfder Dec 19 '13 at 19:42"Thank you very much" in advance
means "before you even do it, I am thanking you very much"."Thank you" very much in advance
means "a very long time before you do it, I am thanking you." – Hellion Dec 19 '13 at 21:09