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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

To send a letter

Hi,

What other phrasal verbs with 'send' can be used to express the same idea?

If you could comment on "to send a letter" vs "to send in a letter" vs "to send off a letter" (assuming all the tree are correct English)?

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"to send a letter" = "to send off a letter" "to send in a letter" = to enclose a document with a letter

— Mister Micawber

  • "to send a letter" = "to send off a letter" "to send in a letter" = to enclose a document with a letter
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"to send a letter" = "to send off a letter"
"to send in a letter" = to enclose a document with a letter
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to send a letter ~ to send off a letter ~ to send out a letter ~ to send a letter off ~ to send a letter out

Other native speakers may have different associations than I do on these, but here are my impressions.

send off suggests something quick and/or casual and/or perhaps a duty done.

Alice complained that I hadn't written to our friends the Jon
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Hi,
Let me respond to your post in another way.

In my experience, I seldom hear eg I sent a letter to Tom.
What I commonly hear is eg I wrote to Tom.

Clive
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Many thanks to all those who have responded to my 'send a letter' query.
My SPECIAL thanks to CalifJim for his VERY interesting, VERY detailed and VERY useful 'summary'!
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