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suffice- usage

kritika

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India - Hindi & English
Can we end a sentence with "suffice"?

Example: I have attached a copy of required details; let me know if this suffice.

Or should it be

I have attached a copy of required details; let me know if this suffice the requirement.

Thanks for your help!
You can end a sentence with almost anything, as long as it's a complete sentence. The first sentence is almost perfect (except you've forgotten to conjugate "suffice" and remember that if the details are "required" then they are being counted and delimited and a definite pronoun is needed).

The second sentence has a few more problems. The first is that "suffice" isn't a transitive verb, so it can't take a direct object as in "to suffice the requirements" (unlike "let me know if this meets/exceeds/satisfies your requirements"). You need a preposition in there.
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You would be correct to write: I have attached a copy of the required details; let me know if this suffices.
Same problem, kritika - you need to make sure the verb matches its subject in number and person. "It" is third person singular, so the verb form of "to suffice" that matches that is, as MattQuad points out, suffices.

And still, "to suffice" doesn't take a direct object, so nothing can "suffice it"; perhaps something could suffice for it or to​ it.
Thanks Lucas for the explaination and MuttQuad for the correction.

I would like to correct the second sentence, let me know if this is right or not:

"I have attached a copy of the required details, let me know if this suffices it"
And still, "to suffice" doesn't take a direct object, so nothing can "suffice it"; perhaps something could suffice for it or to​ it.

Sorry, I realize I might have been confusing in my previous post: I meant to say "suffice" needs to either take a preposition or no object at all. In this case, the object is clear from the context, so it's best to just leave it out:

"let me know if this suffices."
Thanks again Lucas
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