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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: Hi, I have a questions about my letter to my professor.

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:29:20 GMT

You wrote these sentences to respond to the original inquiring post: :

This is very informal - were you asked to do an informal letter or an essay?

Other than that, my main impression is that you haven't really answered the question - only a few words about your impression of the class.

I like your use of dashes -- they flow naturally and seem to convey your thoughts naturally. Having said that your first sentence of using a simple sentence and following that with a question with a dash to connect both is very interesting. In your second sentence, what follows the dash isn't a clause, nor does it seem to link to the previous clause in a way that natually connects them but rather have done in a way that is connecting but rather distant structually.

How can I use to learn to use a dash like you have done? I looked at online sources for help but they don't seem to go in detail about this punctuation mark.

Re: a question about formal language

Clive — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:32:14 GMT

Hi,

One more thing, where can i get help with the general formal language used in letters?

I'm sure you can find lots of info on this if you search the 'net.. Here are a few brief, overall suggestions.

Don't use short forms.

Don't be too familiar with people.

Be polite.

Check your spelling and punctuation carefully.

Of course, do your best to use correct grammar.

Would you like to write a short, formal letter and post it here for comments?

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Letter

Mister Micawber — Sat, 20 May 2006 01:55:39 GMT

Hello, Diddy.

This is a rambling, conversational letter that you might as well leave as is. To make it a formal letter requires your reviewing it carefully for punctuation, spelling mistakes, and interjected comments.

Re: "I hope this letter may find you well"

Mister Micawber — Sun, 29 May 2005 14:12:29 GMT

It may be generational indeed. Clive. I don't use such phrases in anything but more formal letters, of course. If all we have to look forward to is cryptic emails without a punctuation mark in sight, however, I might as well sign off tonight and never come back.