Search results for 'tag:Yours faithfully tag:Business letters' matching tags 'Yours faithfully' and 'Business letters'

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

Susankay — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:18:35 GMT

"Yours faithfully" for an application letter? I think not; too familiar.

This is more like a business letter.

In fact, I would make the salutation To Whom It May Concern

and end it with Sincerely,

But then again, I give a US perspective.

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

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:02:27 GMT

Hi, I was always told when I attended my PITMAN Shorthand School that if you started your letter with Dear Fred ( because you were familiar with the person you were writing to ) - you signed off withYours sincerely and when your letter started Dear Sir (being a business letter and you were unfamilar with the recipient) you signed off with Yours faithfully, and below the sign off the words: 'for and on behalf of: FRED BLOGS COMPANY' or 'for: FRED BLOGS COMPANY'.

I think it boils down to present day - we are all becoming very lazy with grammer and letter writing because we are in such a hurry to get everything done both in business and in leisure. You only have to look at the way children use the mobile phone text messages and that says it all. Who is going to teach proper english (if there will be such a thing in 30 years when we are shortening all the words in the sentence for speed, how will today's educated (I choose the word loosley) be able to teach English in the years ahead?

sample of bussiness letter where i introduce myself to other

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:16:54 GMT

I have joined a new organisation. I would *** to introduce myself to other people in my organisation through a business letter or e-mail. Please provide a sample to refer.

thank you

yours faithfully

santosh

Re: What to use? Miss/Mrs?

Dominik — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:14:58 GMT

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 Close
Yours faithfully - (formal) if you don't know the addressee (use it if the Salutation is Dear Madam/Sir/Sirs)
Yours sincerely - (semi-formal) if you know the addressee
Yours truly/Very truly yours - (AmE)

Regards
Dominik

Re: business letter closings (to Clive, ClaiffJim, MrP, MM)

MrPedantic — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:05:42 GMT

There do seem to be many "partial views" in that thread.

I'm inclined to agree with Nona. You won't go wrong if you use "Dear sir/Yours faithfully" and "Dear MrP/Yours sincerely" for ordinary business letters; but you can switch to "Best wishes/Kind regards" if for example you've already exchanged some friendly emails.

Much depends on whether you're the supplier or the customer. If you're the supplier, it's better not to assume that you can be as friendly as you want on first acquaintance.

PR/Marketing/media companies tend to be a little less formal. Media types will often put kisses at the end, for instance, once you've exchanged a few emails. I'm wary of this myself. I like to know who I'm kissing (and where).

MrP

Re: When to use 'Yours Sincerely, Faithfully, or Thanks'

MrPedantic — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:58:47 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
As nobody has mentioned it previously, i thought i'd just say that "Yours Sincerely" is used informally and "Yours faithfully" is used on things such as formal business letters. Please note the case of the two phrases (capitalisation of the S or f)

Poppycock, Anon.

Your spelling suggests that you write British English; in which case:

"Yours sincerely" ends a letter that begins "Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms So-and-so".

"Yours faithfully" ends a letter that begins "Dear sir/madam".

Note the capitalisation.

MrP

Re: When to use 'Yours Sincerely, Faithfully, or Thanks'

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:42:09 GMT

As nobody has mentioned it previously, i thought i'd just say that "Yours Sincerely" is used informally and "Yours faithfully" is used on things such as formal business letters. Please note the case of the two phrases (capitalisation of the S or f)

Re: Kind regards?

Clive — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:31:29 GMT

Hi guys,

maybe better solution is sentence 'Yours faithfully'? This is formal. It's the standard way to end a formal business letter.

Clive

Re: Can you please check my motivation letter? Thanks in advance..:)

Mister Micawber — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:34:01 GMT

To whom, not For whom
Colon, not comma after concern
for the patent, not for patent
spell out small numbers: three
in a good, not within good
to European, not at European
no hyphen: North American
no capitals: the construction site
gained in not gained into the
no comma after problems
don't use the ampersand in business letters
willingness not wiling
myself is one word
a key role, not key role
approaching, not getting closer to
commissioning not Commissioning
forward to not forward of
No comma after job
the engineering domain, not engineering domain
an electrical engineer, not electrical engineer
current not at current
the electrical engineering domain

Delete this: With the hope that you will consider my profile as applicable for patent examiner position, I wish you all the best

and add this: I hope that you will find my application of interest for your Patent Examiner position. Please advise me if you requir any further information.

Yours faithfully,

Closings

My2sense — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:58:55 GMT

Just my take on it.

Let's look at the structure of an e-mail or a letter for that matter. Simply said you have 3 parts.

1. opening or greeting

2. body

3. closing or ending

NOTE: greeting means hello and not good-bye.

As was pointed out " yours faithfully " is out of style but it still is in use especially in British English. However, as was also pointed out, there are an alternatives that are used in both British and American (North American) English.

1. More formal --- Sincerely yours, Yours sincerely, or even just Sincerely

2. less formal--- Sincerely, Kind/Best/Warm regards, Regards, *Best wishes

3. informal --- Best (wishes), Regards, * Just write your name *, See you, Thanks, etc., etc.

Forum: General English grammar questions (EFL / ESL)
Posted: Nov 11, 11:35 PM [GMT 1]
Post Subject: Re: Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct
Post author: Clive

Hi Benny,

Welcome to the Forum.

Email is still new enough that conventions are still evolving. It's far from universally agreed that the conventions for regular, non-email business letters will simply be automatically followed in email. Email began as an informal. 'short-hand' medium, and in fact most people still seem to be influenced by this. I don' think it will ever be as formal as non-email.

As regards how to end a business, non email letter, here's what I think. 'Best regards' and 'Kind regards' both seem to me suitable only for a personal letter to a friend. I see little or no difference between 'Best' and 'kind' here.' Yours faithfully' tends to sound old-fashioned today, and is seldom used. By far the most common is 'Yours sincerely'.

So, what to put at the end of a business email? Some people don't put anything at all. Others feel they should put something, as to them it feels wrong to just stop. I feel like that, here on the Forum, that's why I always end by putting 'Best wishes, Clive'. It's not a great choice, but it's relatively friendly and that's the habit I got into. But I'm not writing a business email.

You could just put nothing, except for a nice concluding paragraph. Or perhaps your name and/or the name of your company. Or maybe, you could put 'Regards'. I'd omit the 'kind/best' myself, and I'd only say 'regards' to someone I already know.

In a way, it doesn't matter too much what you put, because I don't think people much care what you write. They don't consciously read it, they see so many different endings and they themselves don't know what to write or to expect.

I'm sorry not to be of more help to you, but the whole subject is still in flux.

Best wishes, Clive