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Ahava_yin Posted 22 years ago
Letter Writing
Dear Personnel Director:/, in business letter
Hi,
For a letter, in the greeting part, "Dear ***" usually ends with a comma, if I'm remebering it right. I found one article on the website says that if you really want to make it formal you need to put a colon instead of a comma. Is that so? Or to put a comma or a colon concerns with the different ways between American and British English. Thank you for your attention.
For a letter, in the greeting part, "Dear ***" usually ends with a comma, if I'm remebering it right. I found one article on the website says that if you really want to make it formal you need to put a colon instead of a comma. Is that so? Or to put a comma or a colon concerns with the different ways between American and British English. Thank you for your attention.
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I believe it is common to both varieties of English, Ahava, that a comma is used for informal greetings and a colon for a business letter.
- I believe it is common to both varieties of English, Ahava, that a comma is used for informal greetings and a colon for a business letter.
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I believe it is common to both varieties of English, Ahava, that a comma is used for informal greetings and a colon for a business letter.
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Hi,
I'm not sure whether I'm talking about something not worth discussing at all, but I do find some article talking about the use of colon and comma that confuses me. It says in American way, use colon when it's formal, and comma for informal, but for the British style, always comma. Is that so? Or does that really matter? Maybe people never think about that at all? Thank you for your
I'm not sure whether I'm talking about something not worth discussing at all, but I do find some article talking about the use of colon and comma that confuses me. It says in American way, use colon when it's formal, and comma for informal, but for the British style, always comma. Is that so? Or does that really matter? Maybe people never think about that at all? Thank you for your
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Thanks for delving deeper, Ahava. As an American, I use a colon for business letters and a comma for informal ones, but I see from an Oxford commercial correspondence text I just received that British style of greeting for business letters uses either a comma or NO punctuation-- 'Dear Sirs,' or 'Dear Sirs' !
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
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Thank you so much for helping me with this "trivial" stuff. Many thankssss!
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