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ENGLISH URGENT HELP REQUIRED!!!

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Hi Everyone.
Please tell me the authentic formats for English.
I really need them.
I would appreciate help for all of the formats.
Thanks
 
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Formal letter:

Sender's address (To the right of the page -->)

Leave a line

Receiver's address (Left of the page <--)

Who told you to write anything on the right of your page???? you have to keep everything on the left!!!

Account:

To:
From:
Subject:
Date:

body (paragraphs like 4-5 i guess)
(concluding paragraph)

are you sure about this??
 
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About the account that is what I am using. And yeah you have to use the first address on the right of your page.
I'm following that as I found it in the english addendum. If you look at official letters then it's always like that :)

If you have any views then please do share, I am myself preparing for my english exam :)
 

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The question will tell you how to start and, usually, how to end too, otherwise they just tell you to provide a "suitable" ending.
This is what I've seen in the past 2011 papers (both May/June & Nov/Oct).
 
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Formal letter:

Sender's address (To the right of the page -->)

Leave a line

Receiver's address (Left of the page <--)

Leave a line

Date
leave a line
Dear....
leave a line
Body of letter

leave a line
Regards
Name
Signature

Informal letter:

Receiver's address

Leave a line

Date

Leave a line

Dear..
Leave a line

Body of letter

Love from...
Name

Account:

To:
From:
Subject:
Date:

body (paragraphs like 4-5 i guess)
(concluding paragraph)


Report:


To (The police or principal whatever the question says)

Body

No certain way to end just conclude.
The format is just like account :) Not too certain about this one so yeah...


Hope I helped :) Questions then just ask :) Hope I can answer

you missed the subject part...:D
thanx for the share though11 ;d
 
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but Cambridge English Revision Guide tells two formats for formal letter.
1) Adress of sender to the right wid punctuation
Adress of reciever at left
"your faithfully" in the middle at the end

2)everything on left wid NO punctuation

nd they hv strictly forbidden to merge the two formats togther lyk sumthing on left nd sumthing on rite...nd i m so unsure abt punctuations. further they hv said that now as the directed wrting cums wid commands lyk start wid Dear---------- then no adress shud b given
plz help!
 

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but Cambridge English Revision Guide tells two formats for formal letter.
1) Adress of sender to the right wid punctuation
Adress of reciever at left
"your faithfully" in the middle at the end

2)everything on left wid NO punctuation

nd they hv strictly forbidden to merge the two formats togther lyk sumthing on left nd sumthing on rite...nd i m so unsure abt punctuations. further they hv said that now as the directed wrting cums wid commands lyk start wid Dear---------- then no adress shud b given
plz help!
I've never done letters in the format people have quoted here (though I know letters are always written in that format). But since the question says start your letter with 'To the Principal,/Dear Aunt, I just start it right away after writing the to-whom thing, without the addresses. And end it with my name and date.
 
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I've never done letters in the format people have quoted here (though I know letters are always written in that format). But since the question says start your letter with 'To the Principal,/Dear Aunt, I just start it right away after writing the to-whom thing, without the addresses. And end it with my name and date.
isnt't it that it will leave a good impression on the examiner if v give address?
 

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isnt't it that it will leave a good impression on the examiner if v give address?
Well, I guess, its necessary to go with the format. And yes, you will HAVE TO write the addresses. Because in this typical examiner report ( June 2010 part 2 of paper 1/1) they mention that
"A very precise layout was seen from one Centre, where candidates had not only
been taught a format for the report heading and signature but had been advised to respond to each bullet
point in a separate paragraph, with its own underlined heading – ‘Location and Time of Incident: What the
Victim was Doing: How the Bag was Stolen: Description of Attacker: Help given to Victim:’. These
candidates could scarcely fail to cover all five content points."
So they expect to see us to write in an appropriate format for report/formal letter/account etc.
 

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They will provide you a start :) in report and letter .... if im not wrong
even if its a formal letter, they just tell us to begin our letter with 'To the Principal' and nothing else. So, are we supposed to write the addresses? i guess yes because they want us to go with the generally accepted presentation and register of a letter, a report, a newspaper article, a speech, an eye-witness
account,etc.
 
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even if its a formal letter, they just tell us to begin our letter with 'To the Principal' and nothing else. So, are we supposed to write the addresses? i guess yes because they want us to go with the generally accepted presentation and register of a letter, a report, a newspaper article, a speech, an eye-witness
account,etc.
i don't think so.. Because they have given us the start.. e.g: To the Principal.. And we have to start our letter by just writing "To the Principal"
 
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