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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).

Kindly advice

Rajay — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:42 GMT

I need to write a warning letter formally to one of my staff, who is

a) mis-handling cash

b) Lack of co-ordination with other staff

He is good person. I need to warn softly so that he may correct and continue to work. He is having family and many commitments, consider all this I dont want to fire, but i want to give a chance to correct his behaviour.

Kindly assist to write formal letter to my employee

Thanks & Regards

Rajay

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

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:51:44 GMT

Yours sincerely and Yours faithfully

In the UK, traditional valedictions have been mainly replaced by "Yours sincerely" or "Yours faithfully".

(Do not paste and copy lengthy material without citing references-- MM)

I personally feel that Kind Regards or Best Regards sounds cold and distant. Yours Truely.....or anything starting out with YOURS is to personal. A simple Thank You is warm, professional, and friendly.

Petyon/ HR Manager

Re: Help me to write simple formal letter to my lecturer

Anonymous — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:07:21 GMT

I would like to know about my assignment of Marketing Research, I still donât know how many marks Iâve got!

Kind regards!

Re: Shall I write my name and address at the top right side of my Motivation Letter..?

Tanit — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:41:02 GMT

Hi Tamguatlay,

I am not Nona, and you probably won't trust me because I'm not a native speaker of English. I only wanted to share my experience, which can add something to the topic.

As an ESL student of BrE, I was taught to end a letter with "Your faithfully" when it addresses an unknown addressee (i.e., when it begins with "Dear Sir or Madam") and with "Yours sincerely" when you know his/her name (i.e., the letter begins with "Dear Mr/Ms/Miss [+surname]").

However, during my year in the UK, I saw the expression "Your faithfully" only twice, in two letters written by members of my University staff. Funnily enough, the first one began with "To whom it may concern" (another extremely rare expression ) and the second with "Miss [+ my surname]", two opening formulae I was taught NOT to use, when having classes ... none of them actually began with "Dear Sir or Madam"! Both the letters I mentioned (I've still got them) come from a University, so I'm obviously not talking about illiterate writers.

Another thing I can say is that my British teacher on the one hand strongly advised us to close formal letters in our CAE and CPE exams with "Yours faithfully" or "Yours sincerely" (depending on the circumstances) because those were the expression the examiners were looking for. On the other hand, he also warned us that these day most people, also in the UK, will close those letters with "Sincerely", "Regards", "Kind regards".

If my experience is anything to go by, what we learn sometimes can differ from what is actually done nowadays, just as Clive said.

letter to the CEO

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:39:59 GMT

Hi everybody,

Could you please check my letter and give me advice on how to improve it. The CEO has agreed to give us an airplane ticket but we need to write a formal letter first.

Thanks a lot

"To the Chief Executive Officer

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you on behalf of *** Association.

We are a French association trying to raise funds. For that purpose we are organising a "loto" (that is to say a sort of "bingo", except that people are awarded prizes instead of cash), which will be held on April, ***, within the walls of our association. The benefits of the "loto" will be attributed to the *** Bureau, the aim of which notably being to pay for fieldtrips or any other school trips with pedagogical/educational purposes.

As you may know, airplane tickets are attractive prizes and could enable us to expect more people to turn up. This is why, we request from your generosity an airplane ticket from X to Y.

In exchange, we are willing to offer to your company something in return, under the form of advertising (billboards or anything else you may require).

We very much hope that our expectations will be met by your services and would like to thank you in advance.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Kind regards "

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

Susankay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:29:52 GMT

In a more formal letter, just Regards or With regards, is used.

Best regards or Warm regards really means "My warm regards to you and yours."

There is no other closing after you write these.

Re: letter

Grammar Geek — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:46:28 GMT

1. can I finish a formal letter with "Hoping to receive your answer and sending regards, Joanna"? I find this too informal an ending for a formal letter. I hope to receive your answer shortly, and then your formal closing.

2. should I write the pronoun "you" in a capital letter? ( in formal or informal letters) Never, unless it is the beginning of a sentence.

3. can I say "call for girls" when I mean "invite some girld by calling them" I need more context to understand what you mean here. "Call for girls" sounds like a way to contact protitutes.

letter

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:35:59 GMT

Hi,
I've got some questions and I hope you can answer them.
Thanks in advance
1. can I finish a formal letter with "Hoping to receive your answer and sending regards, Joanna"?
2. should I write the pronoun "you" in a capital letter? ( in formal or informal letters)
3. can I say "call for girls" when I mean "invite some girld by calling them"

Re: Urgent!!!! Write a formal letter for requesting for re-issue

Ccy_ccy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:56:04 GMT

I have drafted the letter, can anybody give some comment?

"Dear Sir/Madamn,

I am writing to report about a document lost. the document of (Ref: 1234567) given by(WHO) on (DAYS) for (PURPOSE) was lost on (DAY), due to (REASONS). Please note it in record and advice me on this matter.I would appreciate if another copy could be reserved.

I am looking forward to receiving your reply. Thank you for your attention.

best regards
(NAMES) "