I sent a report yesterday about the wrong item that I received online and now I'm kinda anxious about my grammar. Thank you in advance.
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1"...that I had already thrown..." You threw it away before you retrieved it in order to check it.– Kate BuntingCommented Mar 9, 2021 at 13:11
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@KateBunting unless the OP wants to note that they've thrown the box out by the time of writing the report, in which case have seems fine to me (if a little surprising without context). Either way, no need to be particularly anxious, it's a little ungrammatical if OP did indeed mean had, but probably not in a way that matters.– Maciej StachowskiCommented Mar 9, 2021 at 13:23
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3I think you are trying to say that there was a check-box that you marked, to say that you had disposed of the item. Please give us much more detail about what actually happened. Did you check a box on a form, or did you throw a box in the trash? Your sentence is very unclear.– chasly - supports MonicaCommented Mar 9, 2021 at 13:45
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My guess is that the box that's being checked is a literal, physical box. Your original sentence with only grammar correction:
To confirm that they gave me the wrong item I checked the box that I had already thrown in the trash.
Also consider this more natural and less ambiguous (because of the multiple meanings of "checked") version:
I confirmed they had sent me the wrong item by inspecting the delivery box, which I had already thrown away.
