B) reply to above

A) LETTER TO FATHER

B) REPLY TO ABOVE

A) LETTER TO MOTHER

Personal letters for different occasions

Signature, Body of the letter, Salutation, Heading, Inside Address.

A business letter is made of the following six parts

1) Business firms use stationery bearing their letter­head, the date supplied in the heading. It may be placed at the right or in the centre. When you write a business letter without a letterhead, you must give a complete heading: street address on the 1st line; city and state on the 2nd line with a comma between them; date on the 3d line with a comma between the day and the year.

2) This is a part of the letter that is not a part of a friendly letter. The name (of the person or the firm or both) and address to whom the letter is written. Ordinarily the inside address is placed 4 typewriter spaces below the heading or date and flush with the left-hand margin.

3) The greeting is placed below the inside address (2 spaces on the typewriter) and flush with the left-hand margin.

a. If you are writing to a firm or group, the proper salutation is Gentlemen followed by a colon (for the USA) or Dear Sirs followed by a comma (for the UK).

b. If you are writing to a specific person but know only his official position and not his name, the correct salutation is Dear Sir (Dear Madam).

c. If you are writing to an individual and have used his name in the inside address, the proper salutation is Dear Mr. - or My dear Mr. (dear is not capitalized).

A person's name abbreviations are Mr., Messrs., Dr., Hon. Others should be spelt out: Professor Roger Keen. Reverend Thomas E. Haupt.

4) This is the actual subject matter. A business letter should observe the 5 C’s of business correspon­dence: correctness, clearness, conciseness, completeness, and courteousness. The 1st line of the body of a business letter is placed 2 typewriter spaces below the salutation.

5) A business letter is signed by hand in ink. The writer's name and the title are typed below the signature

Dear Mother,

How are you getting on? My heart years to see a line of ink drawn by your hand even if it gives no meaning.

Please, do drop a word.

Yours,

Jack

Dear Jackie,

May God look after you wherever you go.

Yours,

Mummy

Dear Daddy,

I am running short of something. We are always running short of one thing. You know what that thing is?

Yours,

Mary

Dear Marry

I am sending something by M.O. tomorrow. If it isn't enough, see through the month somehow.

Incidentally I am myself running short of that thing. When you grow up, work hard, earn and save, you will understand my words.

With best wishes

Yours,

Daddy

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