I have attached vs i had attached

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'I have attached' is used when you are currently sending an email and referring to the files you have just included. 'I had attached' is used when you are talking about attaching files in the past, before the current moment.

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I have attached

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to files that are currently included in an email.

Use 'I have attached' when you are sending an email and want to mention that you have included files with it.

Examples:

I have attached the report for your review.
Please find the document I have attached to this email.
I have attached the photos you requested.
I have attached the presentation slides.
I have attached the necessary forms.

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Last updated: November 04, 2024

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Alternatives:

I am attaching
I am sending you the attached file.
Attached is the document.
Please see the attached file.
The attached file contains the information.

i had attached

This phrase is correct when referring to files that were included in an email in the past, before the current moment.

Use 'I had attached' when you are talking about attaching files in the past, such as in a previous email or conversation.

Examples:

I had attached the file before you asked for it.
She said she had attached the photos to the message.
He had attached the document to the application.
They had attached the necessary forms in the email.
We had attached the presentation slides in the previous email.

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As you know, I had become attached to my old laptop.
I went to work when I had double pneumonia attached to a rolling I.V.Drip.
I had more wires attached to my head than you can count.
I initially had the DAC attached to a very old Philips CD player, as my own Astin Trew At3500 was away for a few days.
If I had to be surgically attached to anybody,
While I had the BPM cable attached to the HiFace Two, I also tried the Paul Hynes SR3-05 power supply.
Well, I had an enormous finger attached to a long thin arm, while my body was very far away.
However, I had also attached the condition to this that the co-detainees now should finally take the opportunity to seize collectively the intentions introduced by Sartre in his preface, and also the complete contents of the SPK, and to carry them forward productively.
Looking more closely, I noted that the eyes of the spider reflected my entire image. Well, I had an enormous finger attached to a long thin arm, while my body was very far away.
While I had the BPM cable attached to the HiFace Two, I also tried the Paul Hynes SR3-05 power supply. I was amazed at how different the sound was using this supply to the batteries.
The Bonapartists had attached themselves to the general, and even the Comte de Paris encouraged his followers to support him.
James had attached his bike to a traditional fishing boat, using the engine to power the propeller.
[Byers] He found the remote control that the assassin had attached to his car.
I later learned that a blogger had attached a photo of it to his blog.
At the end he granted his blessing to all of them, to which the Holy See had attached a plenary indulgence.
The bug that prevented a character out of combat to obtain Dual Wield when a Craftsman had attached to him two Pistolblades has been fixed.
The stooges proceeded to act in word and deed against the populations in the former Russian territories that Soviet Communist Party leaders had attached to Ukraine.
Nonetheless, Escobar did not attend his cousin's funeral but instead listened to the funeral mass via a radio his assistant had attached to the officiating priest.
Louis XV, the last absolute monarch and representative of the decadence of French royalty, had attached to his person a physician who was himself France's first economist.
Clean each socket with the Huggins technique, namely burs that shear away the tiny ligaments that had attached the tooth to the jawbone.

Alternatives:

I attached
I had included
The file was attached
The document had been attached
The photos were attached

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