Search results for 'tag:Commas tag:Formal letters' matching tags 'Commas' and 'Formal letters'

Re: Kind Regards or Kind regards or kind regards...?

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:14:30 GMT

Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English)

Informal, personal (to close friends and family):

With love
Best wishes

Semi-formal / informal (emails, notes, business memos):

Kind regards
Best regards
Regards

Formal letters:

Yours sincerely
- Use when you know the addressee by name (Dear John / Dear Mr Smith). You can only be sincere with someone you know.
Yours faithfully
- Use when you don't know the persons name (Dear Sir or Madam).

Case / Capitalisation

Sentence case applies. Only capitalise the first letter of a sentence (with the exception of proper nouns and special conventions).

Punctuation

Open punctuation and mixed punctuation are common in the UK. If you begin the letter with "Dear Jane," (or "Dear Jane:" in American English), then the closing should be punctuated with a comma (e.g. "Kind regards, John"). These commas (or colon and comma in American English) would be omitted when writing a letter in open punctuation (as the line breaks make such punctuation redundant).

Re: "the"

Mr Wordy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:49:37 GMT

Let me unbamboozle you then.

An exclamation mark after "Thank you" is OK if you want a bright and breezy style. It would not be appropriate in a very formal letter.

"The Management" is also OK.

If that's the end of the sign-off then there should not be a comma after "The Management".

Re: i need help (to check spelling ) urgently

Yoong Liat — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:46:41 GMT

BeginStudent
Hello,

I write a formal letter, and i need to give it to my teacher tomorrow.i would someone can check me this spelling and structure.
Dear Mr. Roy ,

I am doing an English project on "heroin". ( full stop, not comma ) I want to know a little ~~bit~~ more about you and what happened when you were an addict.

I would like to ask you some questions about your past life as an addict.

The first question is "How were you exposed to heroin?"

I would also like to know how frequent you had been using heroin?

The second question is "How does an ex- addict overcome this condition?

Sincerely yours,

Moshe. ( remove full stop )

Thanks alot for your help , i need it urgently . ( Thanks a lot for your help. I need it urgently.)

Re: Quick Question on how to write a formal letter!!

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:20:22 GMT

Hello .. I will give you some help in writing your letter ..

I'm going to tell you how to write a very formal letter..

You should write your address right aligned in the top of the page..

after you finish writing your address skip one line and write the date also right aligned on the page..

next you should skip 1 line and then write the sendee's address .. in other words the person who you want to send to..

after that skip 1 line and write your greetin with no indention .. and since you dont know who you are senting to just write " Dear sir or madam, (dont forget the comma)

then skip another line and start writing your paragraphs .. and there is no indention too .. dont forget to skip 1 line between each paragraph..

when you finish writing your paragraphs skip 1 line and write " Yours sincerely, " or " Yours faithfully " .. but dont write something not formal .. like best wishes or other stuff ..

then skip 1 line and write your name..

dont forget that there should be left and write margins and there are no indentions through out the letter ...

Re: opening task of a letter - with comma and point in UK?

nona the brit — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:13:27 GMT

That would be a very informal letter so I'm not sure you need to worry too much about 'rules' anyway (are you sure the US would finish a salutation with a full stop?).

Hi Peter,

is the form I would think is most common in the UK to match with the more formal 'Dear Peter,'

Re: How to write a letter

Goodman — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:06:44 GMT

Marius Hancu wrote:
As far as I know, comma in the UK, colon in North America.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/31/a2774531.shtml

A couple of decades ago, I remember learning colon being used in formal letters as âDear ***:â. Gradually, the comma was replacing the colon and today, it seems like everyone (at least in the US) is using comma in emails. How correct is it? I myself like to know too.

Re: Check my grammar , and repait my formal letter please

Feebs11 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:55:38 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
I muist write formal letter (120 -150 words) with information for goup of student :
- What they should take .
- Where they will stay.
- What they will see.
- Wish them good travel.

Dear Mr John,
I will be ~~keeper~~ [wrong word - leader/supervisor/liaison officer] of your students group [student group OR students's group]. I'm writing to you to give you some useful hints.
First of all, you are going to stay at a fully furnished [delete comma - not required here] private flat with room for each one of students [Unclear - a room for each student OR room for all the students?]. They will have 3 [spell out numerals below 10 - three] meals (breakfast, dinner and supper).
Student must remember ~~about~~ [their] documents, which are needed when crossing the border, and have some cash to buy additional drinks and food. ~~Take~~ [Bring] umbrellas and raincoats ~~, beacouse now we have rainy season~~ as this is the rainy season.
~~Of course~~ [Also/in addition} we will do some sightseeing~~. We come to see~~ in Cracov with its Castle and the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Both are listed on the UnescoWorld Heritage List
I can't wait to meet your group and I ~~wish~~ hope you have a nice, ~~safety~~ safe trip ["journey" would be better here].
Your's [NO APOSTROPHE> Yours] faithfully,

Can some one check and repair it?

Re: less / few

Clive — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:39:27 GMT

Hi Mara,

"In my old job, I used to work less hours than now."

I know that in spoken English, less + a countable noun is of widespread use. True. But, is few / fewer a better option in this case, for "hours" is a countable noun? Well, do you want to follow widespread use or do you want to pass a grammar exam? In othe words, what do you mean by 'better'? Which of the two (few / fewer) is best? Because you are comparing, you can't say 'few'. You have to say 'fewer'

" I have to make a few sentences using new words such as although, because, but, in addition, and so on."

Is the sentence correct? Yes, but I'd omit the comma after addition. Is the meaning of "a few" here equivalent to "some"? No, 'few' stresses 'not a lot'.

As regards "and so on", I would advise to avoid this kind of generalizations when writing a composition or a letter of any kind, what do you think? in an informal letter, write what you want. Otherwise, this is good advice.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Am without I

khoff — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:46:12 GMT

It's sometimes called "telegraphic style" - as if you were sending a telegram and paying for each word, you would leave out some words to make it shorter. You might write like this in a diary, or in a very informal letter, especially if almost every sentence would otherwidse begin with "I."

In the other example you give, "I like to write, surf the net, and am also a member of the International Club," you need the "am" because what follows it is not a construction parallel to "I like to write" and "(I like to) surf the net." It's not a great sentence either way - I wouldn't say it's incorrrect (with "am") but it seems to me that in a list of three things they should be parallel in construction. I would prefer either a more parallel construction : "I like to write, surf the net and attend the International Club" or else two more distinct clauses: "I like to write and surf the net, and I am also a member of the International Club." (without a comma after "write" it looks less like a list.) I'm not sure what the appropriate grammar rules here are, I'm just trying to explain why the original sentence sounds rather awkward to me.

Re: Help with formal letter to a university

anon1 — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:14:06 GMT

Hi,

Just slight edits.

Changed the first sentece, and inserted a comma on the second sentence after the word "exam". That's it.

Good luck!

MountainHiker

Grzegorz LastName
27/5 Xxxxxxx Street
43-600 Jaworzno, Silesia
Poland
wafel@xx.pl

October 10, 2004

Admission Office
The International Office
University College London
Gower Street London
WC1E 6BT
international@ucl.ac.uk

Dear Sir:

I am writing to you to ascertain your entrance requirements to your undergraduate law degree program for students from Poland.

I will graduate in June 2005. In April, I will be taking Poland's comprehensive final exam for high school students, known as the âMatura Exam," that covers the following subjects:

1) Polish Language
2) English Language
3) History
4) Social Sciences

I am interested in applying for admission to the LLB degree program in Law. The information listed on your web site for EU students does not yet include information for Polish students. Thus, I am writing to you to seek further information.

I look forward to receiving your reply. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at wafel@xx.pl.

Sincerely yours,
Grzegorz LastName

Enclosure: mail1.doc a copy of this letter in the e-mail.