I have sent an email to my client yesterday which starts with this
10 of 15 items we discussed yesterday are resolved and the 5 are in progress.
For some reason I feel an email should not start with number (I think I have been told to avoid very long ago). I wrote emails which starts with number without using 'of' something like 'Ten items have been resolved yesterday'.
So I changed it to this.
Out of 15; which we discussed yesterday, 10 are resolved and the 5 are in progress
But again, I was not confident of punctuation, so I sent the first one. Can some one please help me correct this if its wrong?
Best Answer
When discussing with customers and / or suppliers, it is highly recommended to use formal communication.
Regardless of the type of communication (formal or informal), sentences which start with numbers look awkward. There is always a way to form a sentence with numbers, and avoid having a number as the first element.
Exceptions:
You can use any article / book as a reference. I do not remember any of them starting sentences with numbers represented as digits.