Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Explanation: It simply means that the language register that we used is depends on a situation or on a
people who we are talking.
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The formal register is commonly used
-Sermons
-Rhetorical statements and question
-Speeches
-pronouncement made by judges
- announcement
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Contraction is not usually used in formal writing, even though they are very common in
spoken English.
For example
Avoid using:
I
You
We
Us
Using abbreviation and acronyms will confuse our reader and listener on what we say or write.
However, we can use acronyms, by writing the entire name first and follow the acronym itself
For example
7. Do not start sentences with words like and, so, but, also
In formal register we should start the sentence with those words. Otherwise, we can used this
word
Nevertheless
Additionally
However
In addition
As a result of
Although
ds
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The informal register (also called casual or intimate) is conversational and appropriate when
writing to friends and people you know very well.
Explanation
We can use informal register if we are talking to friend, people we know very well and family. In
talking to them there are no social barriers, we can use slangs and informal language and more
comfortable because there is no rules or restriction we followed in communicating to them