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Is it grammatically correct to write

Please be submitted the monthly financial report.

Instead of writing the following?

I would like to make a monthly financial report.

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  • No, that doesn't make sense. The first sentence is unidiomatic, but I would understand it to mean a request for somebody else to make a submission (or, grammatically, asking the report to submit itself somehow).
    – tripleee
    Commented Nov 13, 2023 at 6:17
  • Not clear what you mean by "make a report". Report in to someone viva voce, summarizing the month's salient events or data?
    – TimR
    Commented Nov 13, 2023 at 13:49
  • "Please be submitted the monthly financial report." is definitely wrong. I would assume it was meant to mean "Please make sure the report id submitted" rather than "I would like to submit a report"."
    – timchessish
    Commented Nov 13, 2023 at 15:19

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The traditional wording for a covering letter with a document is Please find enclosed..., or for an electronic submission please find attached..., but that is rather old-fashioned and formal. You can just say I attach... or Attached is....

It's the report that is 'being submitted', not the recipients!

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"Please be [adjective phrase]" is a polite command. It instructs the person or persons addressed to put themselves in the state of [adjective phrase].

Please be seated.

Please be quiet.

Please be prompt.

Please be on time.

That form of command does not accept either a direct object or a "passive" subject in the position highlighted:

Please be on time the bus. ungrammatical

Please be submitted the report. ungrammatical

But it can have a sentient subject there, in vocative mode, addressing the person(s) so instructed:

Please be quiet, kids.

Please be seated, people.

Please be on time, Bob.

P.S. It is also possible to personify an object as if it were capable of hearing and heeding your words, and this kind of "command" is more an entreaty than an order or instruction:

Please be on time, bus!

Please be submitted, report!

Note there the absence of a determiner.

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"Please submit the monthly financial report" is a request for someone to submit or attach a report.

"I would like to submit a monthly financial report" notifies the recipient of your intent to do something, i.e., submit or attach a report.

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