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Please sign the document and return after which our agent will contact you.

What does the sentence mean?

  1. I should sign the document
  2. I should return the document
  3. After the second party receives the signed document they will contact me. Am I right ?
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The sentence is missing the object of return, and it is possibly a fused sentence (two phrases were joined together without using the appropriate punctuation). – kiamlaluno Feb 6 '12 at 22:00

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Yes, that's what it means. A comma after return would have been a kindness on their part.

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