By Salutation, Yours sincerely

#If you have the name of a person at the company, use that in your salutation: Dear Mr xxxx/Dear Ms yyyy, and end with Yours sincerely. Wherever possible it is better to send such letters to a specific person.

Where I went to school I was taught (& the meanings of the words make it seem logical) that "Yours truly," is the correct response for a business saluation (i.e. the information is true), whereas "Yours sincerely," is correct for a personal salutation when corresponding...

corrections in bold and other areas you need to look at are highlighted for you. Watch out for the length of your sentences. You tend to run on and try to connect too many ideas and are not using enough commas. Dear Sir or Madam (US uses colon, UK uses comma or nothing after salutation) This...

Dear Madam is used in business letters when the surname of the addressee is unknown.Dear Ann is acceptable if she is your colleague or friend.If you don't know the surname of the addressee you can also use: Dear Sir, Dear Sirs; Gentlemen (AmE)P.S.Complimentary CloseYours faithfully - (formal) if...

Should the first letter of a salutation as in "Kind regards" be capitalised? I was taught in secretarial school (many years ago), that salutations e.g. 'yours sincerely', 'yours faithfully' and 'kind regards' ... should not be capitalised at all.

The correct usage of 'faithfully' and 'sincerely' is taught in junior school English. If addressed Dear Sir or Madam then it is 'faithfully' or to a named person 'sincerely'. However, today I have been rebuked by my new boss for using 'sincerely' instead of 'faithfully' when the salutation...

I hate to be the fly in the ointment but I would write Mr. A. Poster Anywhere The World Date Dear Mr Poster Your englishforums enquiry of 15 November I am happy to inform you that you have received two answers to your enquiry about salutation and subject order in letters. However, these are...