"You are hereby kindly requested to provide with us the missing
equipment..."
Yes; flowery politeness. The type of padding that is common in corporate correspondence. It's fine though.
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but I personally think kindly had better be used for the addressee, as
in "you are requested to kindly provide us..."
"you are requested to kindly provide" is not, IMO, a good choice. It is better as is. The asker is stating that they are 'kindly requesting' (which is polite). The suggested edit is asking the receiver to provide, kindly - to provide something in a kind way. The original text may be overly polite, but the suggested edit is condescending, which is not what you want.
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Secondly, I think "...provide us with" is correct and "provide with
us" is lame. I need an expert opinion.
Yes, "provide us with" is correct. "provide with us" is a non-standard construction.
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I would request that you kindly reply to this post only if you are
sure of the answer by experience or qualification.
American, native speaker, writer/editor, business person.
1.) In this book, [it] is the father who tries to murder her.
2.) In this book, [it] is the father and John who try to murder her.
3.) In this book, [it] is her parents who try to murder her.
Your question involves the it-cleft construction.
Basically, what is happening is that a simpler sentence has been cleaved into two. One part of it (e.g. "the father") has been foregrounded into a main clause, while the rest has been backgrounded as a relative clause.
For example:
- a.) The father tries to murder her.
The info "The father" can be foregrounded, via the main clause in an it-cleft construction,
- b.) [It is the father] [who tries to murder her].
The main clause form of "It BE X" is fixed, for the most part. Usually it is of the form "It is X", "It was X", "It will be X", etc.
The rest of the info is in the form of a relative clause. Note that this is a slightly different type of (integrated) relative clause from the other types that are often taught in school and in grammar books (which are the usual integrated relatives and the supplementary relatives).
For your #2 version,
2.a) In this book, [the father and John] try to murder her.
2.b) In this book, [it is [the father and John]] [who try to murder her].
And your #3 version is similar.
Best Answer
'This': 'information' is the noun for which 'this' is used as the demonstrative pronoun. Since information- is singular, this - is too, no matter what the information consists of.