What's wrong with "We hope you will find our Qualifications to be well-organized, concise, and most of all, to exceed your expectations."

Why is the following sentence grammatically incorrect?

We hope you will find our Qualifications to be well-organized, concise, and most of all, to exceed your expectations.

I've asked three grammar whiz friends and they have all told me "it just isn't right." I need reasons and rules! I wrote this sentence as a closing to a cover letter....


If you delete the most of all and rewrite it as a bulletted list, the problem becomes clear:

We hope you will find our Qualifications to be:

  • well-organized
  • concise
  • to exceed your expectations

Your sentence treats well-organized, concise and to exceed your expectations as being in the same grammatical category. well-organized and concise are adjectives, but to exceed your expectations is an infinitive. to be to exceed your expectations is just wrong.

It was harder to spot before, because the most of all confused matters.

Also, qualifications should probably not be capitalized (although that depends on context).


Based on context, Qualifications would have to be taken to be some kind of written document, but none of the senses of the noun "qualification" in e.g. Merriam-Webster could be construed to refer to a document. So either it's some kind of jargon, or it's a wrong use of the word "qualification." If it's some kind of jargon, that would need to be explained for this general audience to understand. Otherwise, you need to say something like "qualification document" or whatever it is you mean by "Qualifications." Also, why is it capitalized?

Furthermore, many editors or grammar nitpickers would object to the unparallel structure of the list—adjective, adjective, infinitive clause—but I don't think this makes it ungrammatical, just clunky.