> What am I missing, guys? Most of you clicked these buttons after you
> had read mentioned mailman phrases. Are these sentences grammatically
> correct? (Upon reading these mailman phrases, the buttons were clicked
> by most of you :-)

I'm assuming you interpret these sentences as intended, and that you aren't
trying to decipher the meaning, right?

Gramatically, no, they aren't correct.  To correct them, the subject of the
sentence must be changed.  A correct version might read:

"By clicking on the Unsubscribe button, you are requesting a that a
confirmation e-mail be sent to you."

This wording indicates that YOU (the reader) are the one pressing the 
button.  As written above, the confirmation e-mail is the one pressing the 
button, which is a patently ridiculous concept.

In common conversation or writing, however, almost no one will ever
even notice that difference (I had to read it twice to figure out the
problem).  It is, in many ways, just like ending a sentence with a
preposition.

"That is the item I was thinking of!" - Incorrect.  "Of", as a preposition,
should never be used without an object.

"I was think of that very item!" - Correct.  In this case, "of" is used as
a part of a prepositional phrase.

Frankly, most of this stuff made almost no sense to me (a native
speaker) until I took German.  I think the take-away lesson is that
English is quite flexible, and most English speakers can interpret
your meaning even if it is quite mangled (although I have generally
found your postings to be extremely well written, far better than I'm
ever likely to manage in any foreign tongue).

> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Mike, Ukraine.

Mike H., US
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