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Beginning and ending a letter

Beginning and ending a letter. Aim To revise the common salutations and valedictions (or complimentary closes) used in letters and emails. Recap. What ways can you think of to: Begin a letter/email? End a letter/email?. Salutation & valediction match.

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Beginning and ending a letter

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  1. Beginning and ending a letter Aim To revise the common salutations and valedictions (or complimentary closes) used in letters and emails

  2. Recap What ways can you think of to: • Begin a letter/email? • End a letter/email?

  3. Salutation & valediction match • Find a salutation (beginning) or valediction (ending) which match together: - formality - appropriateness • Decide whether you are a formal or informal pair

  4. Dear • FORMAL, SEMI-FORMAL and INFORMAL • It is the most commonly used salutation. • Dear Sir/Madam = most formal • Dear Mr Tan/Ms Rhodes = still very formal, but name is known • Dear Jenny/John = informal

  5. Hi/Hello • VERY INFORMAL • Only used with friends and not advisable in situational writing tasks!

  6. Yours faithfully • MOST FORMAL • Used when you don’t know the name of the person you are writing to, only their title e.g. Sir/Madam/Doctor/Principal/Editor

  7. Yours sincerely • FORMAL • Used for formal letters • Used when you address the person you are writing to by name to e.g. Dear Mr Tan • Remember by ‘S and S never go together’ (e.g. Dear Sir does not end with Yours sincerely)

  8. Yours truly • FORMAL • Used in formal letters/emails when you know the name of the person you are writing to (e.g. Dear Mr Tan), but when you are signing it on behalf of a group of people e.g. ‘Yours truly, 2 Opal’

  9. Yours hopefully • FORMAL • Not used very often – only really in formal letters of respect or complaint (in expectation of getting something from your complaint) • You will know the name of the person you are writing to e.g. Mr Tan

  10. Regards/Kind Regards • SEMI-FORMAL • Used in informal letters with people that you don’t know who you are communicating with in an informal way or with people who are higher in status than you. • Increasingly used in formal emails as ‘sincerely or faithfully’ can sound odd.

  11. Best wishes • INFORMAL • Used in informal letters or emails to friends, never to someone that you don’t know

  12. Love/Bye • VERY INFORMAL • Usually used in informal letters to friends, postcards, informal emails • Usually best to avoid in situational writing tasks – keep for outside school!

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