I am directed to you

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Then there are the poets, so many of them brilliant correspondents, the spluttering Keats writing his delicate farewells in Italy, the grumbling Larkin bemoaning the brown bills on his doormat, longing for a letter beginning, "I am directed to inform you that under the will of the late Mr Getty … " But the modern master is Ted Hughes.

It is directed to you, and I am further to request the favour of you to have the same presented, with the compliments of this body, as your late father used to do". Vol. Vol

My thoughts are directed to you because I believe your votes will make the difference in the outcome.

At the last meeting of my committee, I was directed to convey to you and your family our sincere sympathy on the loss of your husband.

"I hope your boyfriend beats you," was directed to Spain.

We, alas, are not Greek-enabled at the Bench, and so I am directing you to The Language Log, where you can (and must, if you want to get it right) read the post in its entirety.

This is directed to students!

After President Obama's announcement of a new agency to review mass surveillance procedures, he sent out an obligatory note to Clapper, "by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I am directing you to establish a Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies Review Groupp)." [PDF].

Now I am directing you".

One, I'm directing it.

I'm Directing it myself.