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I wrote a sentence with 3 prepositional phrases and I wondered in what order should they go.

1) For ex: "Attached is the form for the test for the office at Main St." This isn't a good sentence, but I have trouble when I have 2 phrases in a sentence that begin with 'for'. It sounds funny. How do I rectify that?
2) Also, For ex: "I went to the house at noon, etc." I can't think of a good sentence (that's why I wrote 'etc.') but in what order do I put prepositional phrases in a sentence when I'm dealing with time, location, and other things that require prep phrases? I know sometimes I'm writing and I'm thinking that there has to be a clearer way to write this.

Can you recommend any websites that deal with rules about word/prep phrase order in a sentence? I want to write clearer sentences.
Thank you.
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I haven't seen anything with rules about the order of prepositional phrases.

I don't think your sentence (1) is wrong. However it might be better to rewrite it with one less prepositional phrase:

Attached is the form for the test for the Main Street office.

Or you could cut down even more:

Attached is the test form for the Main Street office.

Business writing is full of such noun strings, which sometimes become too difficult to read and need a prepositional phrase or two to break them up. But I don't think these noun strings that I have proposed are too long or complex to be easily understood.



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