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Dated

When replying to a letter, do not say "Thank you for your letter dated on .....". The correct expression is "Thank you for your letter dated ..." or "Thank you for your letter of ....". We should not say dated on.

Discuss

It is not grammatically correct to say "I want to discuss about ...". The word discuss means "to talk about", so if you say discuss about, you are really saying talk about about. Same when you use the word mention. Cut out the about!

For example:

Mary mentioned that her report was overdue.
I want to discuss the agenda for next week's meeting.
In the workshop we discussed the new rules for good writing.

Due to the fact that

This is a wordy expression and can simply be replaced by As or Since or Because.

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