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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL General English Grammar Questions</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishGrammarQuestions/Forum12.htm</link><description>Ask your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)</generator><item><title>Re: Kindly help to make it sound personal</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/KindlySoundPersonal/gzxrn/post.htm#529750</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:49:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:529750</guid><dc:creator>optilang</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/KindlySoundPersonal/gzxrn/post.htm#529750</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-529750.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Dear XYZ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;At Marathon, we always believe in providing our &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;clients &lt;/font&gt;&lt;strike&gt;customers&lt;/strike&gt; with something that gives &lt;span&gt;them&lt;/span&gt; pleasure and exceeds &lt;span&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;expectations&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;We would like to share with our &lt;strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;patrons&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;(most) valued customers &lt;/font&gt;the news&lt;/span&gt; of an excellent investment opportunity, which&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;, we are sure,&lt;/font&gt; will yield great returns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We are&lt;span&gt; offering&lt;/span&gt; two commercial properties &lt;span&gt;for immediate&lt;/span&gt; possession – Marathon Vastu and Marathon Corner - in the &lt;span&gt;upcoming&lt;/span&gt; suburb of Airoli, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;just a stone&amp;#39;s throw away from the station&lt;span&gt;. Investment in these&lt;/span&gt; properties will make your coffer&lt;span&gt;s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;overflow &lt;/span&gt;with profit. This is an immense opportunit&lt;i&gt;y&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span&gt;with &lt;strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;possible&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt; (the/a very real)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt; potential for &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;rapid returns as the space can be leased&lt;/span&gt; to entrepreneurial businesses, gymnasiums, hospitals, banks and clinics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;To grab the lion&amp;#39;s share&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; call us now, because &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;opportunities as good as this are gone in the blink of an eye. (&lt;/font&gt;within a blink of an eye this opportunity might &lt;span&gt;vanish&lt;/span&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Regards,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Kindly help to make it sound personal</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/KindlySoundPersonal/gzmqp/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:56:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:529446</guid><dc:creator>Creativeguru</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/KindlySoundPersonal/gzmqp/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-529446.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;Dear XYZ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;At Marathon, we always believe in providing our customers with something that gives &lt;span&gt;them&lt;/span&gt; pleasure and exceeds &lt;span&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;expectations&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;We would like to share with our &lt;strong&gt;patrons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; the news&lt;/span&gt; of an excellent investment opportunity, which will yield great returns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We are&lt;span&gt; offering&lt;/span&gt; two commercial properties &lt;span&gt;for immediate&lt;/span&gt; possession – Marathon Vastu and Marathon Corner - in the &lt;span&gt;upcoming&lt;/span&gt; suburb of Airoli, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;just a stone&amp;#39;s throw away from the station&lt;span&gt;. Investment in these&lt;/span&gt; properties will make your coffer&lt;span&gt;s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;overflow &lt;/span&gt;with profit. This is an immense opportunit&lt;i&gt;y&lt;/i&gt; &lt;span&gt;with &lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; rapid returns as the space can be leased&lt;/span&gt; to entrepreneurial businesses, gymnasiums, hospitals, banks and clinics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;To grab the lion&amp;#39;s share&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; call us now, because within a blink of an eye this opportunity might &lt;span&gt;vanish&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR:black;"&gt;Regards,&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The above is sales letter I have following queries for the same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. I am addressing Dear..., It&amp;#39;s personal, in the first para we are using ...our patrons here it sounds very general what is the alternative to make it sound personal &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. In second para... with posible rapid returns is not giving the punch I mean it is sounding as if there is a&amp;nbsp;risk of failure and neither i want to sound that it&amp;#39;s a guaranteed success...I though it to replace with .....the immediate results, is it approporiate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>