thanks in advance vs thanking in advance

Both 'thanks in advance' and 'thanking in advance' are commonly used phrases, but 'thanks in advance' is the more widely accepted and natural expression in English. It is a polite way to thank someone for their help or consideration before they have actually done anything.

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thanks in advance

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to express gratitude to someone for their help or consideration before they have actually done anything. It is a polite way to acknowledge someone's future assistance.

Examples:

Thanks in advance for your help with this project.
I appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to review my work.
If you could provide the information, I would be grateful. Thanks in advance.
I'm looking forward to your response. Thanks in advance.

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Start with the tables... thanks in advance.
Mrs Todini, I offer my thanks in advance to all Members who will be present this evening to vote on these reports which are indeed very important.
And if you refrain because you believe that the Commission has not done so badly, after all - then many thanks in advance.
I therefore thank in advance all those who are due to take the floor and once again express my thanks to the committee and its rapporteur.
I should like to thank in advance all those Members who are kind enough to support these amendments.
I would like to thank in advance the members of the Group of the European Radical Alliance, the Greens, and all the others who will support our amendments willingly.
I appreciate and thank you in advance for your unwavering support.
And thank you in advance for curbing your curiosity.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you in advance for supporting my report.
I thank you in advance for including these particular details.
Thank you in advance for your help, Mr President.
General, I want to thank you in advance for your testimony.
I would like to thank you in advance for the information.
I thank you in advance for your consideration and understanding.
I thank you in advance for your reply.
Thank you in advance for your answers.
I thank you in advance for answering these questions.
If this plan falls apart, I just want to thank you in advance for throwing your career in with mine.
And we thank you in advance for your thoroughness in the matter.
We would like to thank him in advance and we hope that we will be able to improve the system on this basis.

Alternatives:

thank you in advance
thank you beforehand
thank you ahead of time
thank you in anticipation
thank you for your help in advance

thanking in advance

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase is also used to express gratitude to someone for their help or consideration before they have actually done anything. However, 'thanks in advance' is more natural and widely accepted.

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Thanking you in advance for understanding, Laura.
So I will conclude by thanking Parliament in advance for its contribution to this great enterprise.
I will finish my speech by thanking you in advance for your vote.
Gentlemen, here is a personal letter from the king to the pope, thanking him in advance for attending to his suit sympathetically.
Mr President, let me melodramatically apologise in advance.
And we knew it in advance.
He knew all the outcomes in advance.
The hydroponics seminar was booked three months in advance.
Ideally, the potential repercussions should be assessed in advance.
Strategy packets will be shipped in advance.
This comprises Member States contributions paid in advance.
I got 200 grand in advance.
It is something that is decided in advance.
Providing information three months in advance is not then possible.
Menus are prepared in advance timed to perfection.
You cheated this woman in advance.
Michel Gondry is thanking in every single one of his... speeches.
He promised me US$ 8O in advance of your wages.
Congratulations in advance on your promotion.
I always get paid in advance.

Alternatives:

thanks in advance
thank you in advance
thank you beforehand
thank you ahead of time
thank you in anticipation

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thanks in advance vs thanking in advance