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Is this sentence correct as is, or should I remove the second has since that phrase is connected to the preceding one with and?

As Mr. X has replied your email and has requested the 'PDF files' of the project, here please find attached the requested files.

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As Mr.X has replied to your email and requested the 'PDF files' of the project, here please find attached the requested files.

Of your suggestions, I prefer the above.

You may however mean,

As Mr.X has replied to your email, requesting the PDF files for the project, please find attached the requested files.

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  • Both as good. But I pick the second one which sounds much better :) @chasly-from-uk – Electricman Aug 14 '15 at 23:08
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You can generally conjoin two phrases of the same grammatical type to form a phrase of that same type, which can go anywhere either single phrase could go. This gives the following three equivalent ways of saying your example. I have indicated with brackets the structure of the conjoined phrase for each version:

[[As Mr. X has replied your email] and [as he has requested the 'PDF files' of the project]], ...
As Mr. X [[has replied your email] and [has requested the 'PDF files' of the project]], ...
As Mr. X has [[replied your email] and [requested the 'PDF files' of the project]], ...

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  • I understand better now, Thank you. @greg-lee – Electricman Aug 14 '15 at 23:48

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