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In formal applications it is quite obvious:
Kindly grant me three days of leave and oblige.
Can I write it simply as:
Kindly oblige me with three days of leave.
(As we have the construction--
oblige somebody with something
eg. Could you oblige me with a paper and a pen.)
Anyway, can I use three days' leave instead of three days of leave?
Thank you in anticipation.
The first sentence "... and oblige" is not correct. Oblige is being used intransitively, but not in any kind of typical fashion. (In fact, the syntax makes it more like a noun, but that doesn't exist.)
The second version "Kindly oblige me with three days of leave." is correct.
The second version is a bit too formal for me, and for a workplace context. It looks "Wedding invitation polite", and not the sort of thing that is written for a fairly everyday request to HR in a business.
"Three days' leave" is correct. I suspect that few people would actually use the apostrophe there, and say "Three days leave".
A simpler, plainer, less "Wedding-Invitation" would be,
I would like three days' leave.
