You may replace one with the other Adjective [usually adjective noun] a kindly person is kind, caring, and sympathetic He was a stern critic but an extremely kindly man Benevolent, kind, caring, nice however, 'kindly' can be used as an adverb, meaning 'thoughtfully or helpfully' kindly This is a matter of tone or register Not incorrect, but rare and getting rarer
See, for example, this ngram result for kindly reply vs The last time the former was as common as the latter was about 1910 As of 2000, please reply was about 25x as common I can't speak for bre usage. Consider the common phrase please kindly listen while i explain this Or kindly wait while i check this. in my view please is asking while kindly, as already mentioned, is used to take the edge of a command
'kindly pay your debt at your earliest convenience.' the use of both words together is contradictory. Can the word kindly be used to close an email, for example Hi matt, i would like to thank you for the great help yesterday Kindly, john i see it very strange, but many people in my institution are using it to close their emails Kindly, is this usage of kindly is correct? Sometimes i received emails start with kindly notice, and other times kindly note, i checked the two meaning on the dictionaries and it seem both of them can be verb and they have similar meani.
It would be appreciated if you can let us know when can we expect to receive the final payment does this sound right I have been using the sentence above whenever i am trying to be polite while c. As you have better contacts with musicians, kindly do the needful Do the needful is used when we want to cut the story short In fact, at times, we just write do the needful and the favorer understands everything Wikipedia says that the phrase is now obsolete and slang (this is news for me!).
However, as it's unusual to use it as an adjective, we should use kind which is more usual and common adjective in modern english as follows The second version kindly oblige me with three days of leave. is correct The second version is a bit too formal for me, and for a workplace context It looks wedding invitation polite, and not the sort of thing that is written for a fairly everyday request to hr in a business Three days' leave is correct. I kindly request to apply in your company
Is the usage of kindly correct here I am writing a message to a company i am applying for.
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