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my 'be or not to be' Part Two :)))

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:49:39 GMT

Hello :)

I would like to ask someone to make corrections/improvements to my letter. I am not skilled at all in writing formal letters so any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Maria

Dear Ms. ***,

I would like to inform you that there is a possibility for me to come to Madrid at the end of next week not like I was previously expecting at the middle of October. I am going to be in Madrid 5five days starting at Saturday the 13^th. I would be glad to have the interview with you at your earliest convenience.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

FirstName LastName

Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:21:05 GMT

I am an English businessman.

The way you're supposed to sign off a letter depends on how you start.

In a letter, if you don't know the name of the person to whom you are sending the letter, you start "Dear Sirs,". If you start with this form, it is correct to end with "Yours faithfully,"

In a letter, if you do know the name of the person to whom you are sending the letter, you start "Dear Mark,". If this is a formal letter, then it is correct to end with "Yours sincerely," - though if this is an informal letter you can end it however you want.

With email the conventions are more recent and less clearly defined. I often start with "Hi Mark", or "Hello Mark" (just "Mark," is a bit gruff) if I've already spoken with the addressee. Most emails to me usually follow this format. I usually end these emails with "Kind regards," though lots of people just use "Regards,"

I do use the "Dear Mark, / Yours Sincerely" format in emails if I'm making contact with someone for the first time.

Hope this helps...

Re: I am looking forward to (meet / meeting)? you

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:22:31 GMT

In British English, if you were going to use this phrase in a formal letter, you should write 'I look forward to meeting you' , this and similar phrases are often used to close letters.
Informally, it would be ok to use 'I am looking forward to meeting you', but in the UK we would probably use ' I'm ' rather than ' I am ', so it would be 'I'm looking forward to meeting you'

Re: Please help edit this formal letter !!!

Mister Micawber — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:26:41 GMT

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Dear Mr [surname],

I am grateful to you for your help, but Nante is very far from my hometown, and at the present time I am busy at school.

The United States is a good place to study, but I am confused because of the diversity of their education system. I am writing to ask you to send me a list of high schools that issue Form I-29s to foreign students. I could then select a suitable school, and after that I would be very happy to meet you for further discussion .

Yours sincerely,

Charmane

Please help edit this formal letter !!!

sooyun — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:15:05 GMT

Dear Sir ,
I am grateful to you for your help howerver Nante is so far from my hometown and at the present time i am busy with my study at school .
United States was a good destination for people arond the world studying , but I am very embarassed because of a diversity of their systeme educaion. So, i am writing to ask you to send me a list of High School issue I-20 to foreign student . Therefore , I could select the suitable school for me , and after that I would be really happy to meet you and we could discuss more about that .

Yours Sincerely,
Charmane

Re: Need help writing a formal letter to an attorney + legal advice

Szasza1976 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:39:02 GMT

Hi!

A lawyer is neither God, nor the president of the US. I would send a little amount of money (in a form you can prove it) to show, that you are aware of your debt and the following letter.

Dear Mr. X.Y.,

thank you for waiving $ *** of my debt. As a sign of my willingness to pay hereby I send you $ YYY. Unfortunately I am in a very bad financial situation, because ..(writing reasonable things here). I hope, that you understand my miserable situation and accept to pay in installments. As you can see I will do my best to prevent going to court, which would be an expensive and long procedure for your client and me as well. I always pay my debts in time and I am very sorry for not paying to your client, for which the only reason is, that I was absolutely unaware of my debr. Up to this time, I didn't receive any warnings, that I did not pay in time, so I am a little bit confused that how interest could raise the amount I owe. Please let me know if installments or a further waivement is acceptable to you, or not.

Yours sincerely,

Re: I need your help ! Pls correct my formal letter ! It's Urgent !!

sooyun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:04:21 GMT

Class , i mean in Eng . Now My age is 15
Pls give me some advice , coz i feel embarrassed about that ><''

Need help writing a formal letter to an attorney + legal advice

audreyhepburn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:13:21 GMT

Hello everybody.

I am new here, found this website when I was browsing on "how to write letters to an attorney".

So this is a pretty long story, but to make it short, I was given a summon to appear in court regarding a (small claim) debt which I was unaware of (kind of misunderstanding....long story as I said).

Anyhow, I represented myself because I could not afford a lawyer. The other party has a lawyer. After a talk with the lawyer about waiving some of the fee, he said he would contact me back.

he did today, and waived some of the fee, but still unreasonable for me. It will sound like I'm asking for more that what is already a good deal, but I believe I deserve it.

So, I want to write him back a letter showing my gratitude for the partial waiver, but I'd like to also ask for him to consider waiving more given my financial situation and given the situation of the whole case.

I'd be happy to tell the long story, but I prefer not to do it in a public forum. Since english is my second languange and I am not well versed in the legal world, I'd like someone here to give me some advice on how to write the letter, better yet, tell me about my decisions, is it good, bad, the chances the lawyer will waive more, how things usually work,...e.g are there a lot of room for negotiation, etc..

I am completely blank, never been to court...never had any legal problems, so this is real new to me.

If someone is willing to help, I'd appreciate it very much, please message me privately if you want further information about the story and help me out further.

Thank you

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: I need your help ! Pls correct my formal letter ! It's Urgent !!

Jarry1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:42:37 GMT

With due reverence [Rarely used, but OK] , ~~it is started that~~ my name is Charmane and I am a French student of class (see below) 10 . I have got information about [ School's name] from your Website (or website) and this is one ~~of thos~~e I am most interested in. However, I do not know ~~that~~ whether you will accept an ~~abroad~~ foreign student ~~or not~~ and I am writing to ask you to send me more informations about that.
I would be grateful if you could send me an application form, too.
Thank you for considering my request.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,

By 'class 10', do you mean the French or English (Year 10, i.e. ages 14-15)? I suggest the English Year is more useful on this application.