By Yours faithfully, Expressions

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...

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...

The expression "yours faithfully" isn't old fashioned. It applies to any letter where the recipient is unknown. Hence, if you begin with Dear Sir/Madam you end with Yours Faithfully. If you know the person in a formal context, or at least their name/sex, then you write Yours...

Hello everyone, I am from Hong Kong and I have finished writing a letter of motivation for a master degree overseas. My written English is quite poor so I am afraid that there are many grammatical mistakes. Moreover, I worry whether my contents are strong enough to have the attention of the...

Hi, I'm new here.I'm applying for a university. a BSc programme.Can you please check my recommendation? I wrote it for my teacher who can not speak English. I'm not a native speaker as well. There must be some mistakes and unappropriate expressions that need to be corrected.And a brief...

Hi, I'm new here.I'm applying for a university. a BSc programme. Can you please check my recommendation? I wrote it for my teacher who can not speak English. I'm not a native speaker as well. There must be some mistakes and unappropriate expressions that need to be corrected.And a brief...

I'm studying medicine in Germany and I would like to do a clinical elective in Malta next summer. For this, I need to write a "Letter of Motivation"....and I would greatly appreciate some help. I will send the letter to a central organization that will forward the application to various...

Hello, I'm new to the forum and I find it really kind of you that you take all the trouble to help other people. I'm Spanish and have just started working as a secretary. My boss has given me a letter to translate into English, could you please have a look at it and tell me if it's right? I've...

Hi, I´m writing a "Letter of Motivation" for a Study Programm. Please be so kind and help me to find my mistakes, grammar errors and somehow "D-English" expressions. Sorry for BLOCKING out the school names, but privacy is nice to have Thanks a lot from...

The traditional rule of etiquette in Britain is that a letter starting "Dear Sir or Madam" must end "Yours faithfully", while a letter starting "Dear " must end "Yours sincerely". In formal etiquete, not to use these formulaic expressions would be interpreted as ignorant. (Obviously this...